Quotes Quotes - Page 109

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

People are too durable, that''s their main trouble. They do too much to themselves, they las too long.

People say law but they mean wealth.

People who are greedy have extraordinary capacities for waste. They must take in too much.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

Personal appearance is looking the best you can for the money.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of thetaking is empowerment in itself.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corruptsabsolutely.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it''s moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man''s self.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Only the educated are free.

Originality is the art of Concealing your Source.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Our errors are steps on the way.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Now-a-days women don''t hire domestic help-they marry it.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.