Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
George Santayana
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REGINALD VINCENT HOLMES Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
BLAISE PASCAL Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism
BLAISE PASCAL A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of
skepticism may . . . readily degene...
RT. HON. WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
THOMAS SOWELL Poetry, like chastity, can be carried to far
MARK TWAIN Chastity - you can carry it too far
MARK TWAIN Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the f...
GEORGE SANTAYANA ...Some things...arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized...
GAIL GODWIN The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
PATRICK NESS Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.
LOUIS PASTEUR Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
G. K. CHESTERTON Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Weird is this world because a person who should be heard is often ignored and one who should not be ...
ANUJ SOMANY Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity
STEPHEN KING Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme l...
GEORGE CHAPMAN There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to pres...
GEORGE SANTAYANA No ground gained was ever relinquished.
MATTHEW B. RIDGWAY [Board chair George Russell expressed his skepticism about future funding from the state.] The big i...
GEORGE RUSSELL Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
UNKNOWN Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
SAINT AUGUSTINE That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
EDMUND BURKE Defer not thy well-doing; be not like St. George, who is always a horseback, and never rides on.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It's not perfect. But George Mitchell is credible. He should do a good job.
FAY VINCENT An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGN Give me chastity and continence, but not quite yet.
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE Chastity is not an attribute of body, but soul.
UDAI YADLA A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Credit is like chastity, they can both stand temptation better than suspicion
JOSH BILLINGS A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE There's a lot of skepticism among professionals that too many people are trying to jump in -- so it ...
DONALD SELKIN As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
CICERO It can be a great way to find something that might not be readily available in your area. Maybe you'...
SUSAN GRANT People like to be around him. He's a great kid, and he readily accepts the coaching.
DANNY STRUCK Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism
leads to small understanding. No ...
UNKNOWN Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No ske...
UNKNOWN The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are mov...
FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
THOMAS CARLYLE Searching for truth without skepticism, is like having sex without a genital.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Once we got that lead we never relinquished it.
CASEY WILLIAMS We are not against safeguards for L1 visas, but new restrictions should not be adverse. We agree L1 ...
KIRAN KARNIK We believe the information is factual in nature and should be readily available to the city and coun...
KATHI MOORE Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE My husband will never chase another woman. He's too fine, too decent, too old. [said when George Bur...
GRACIE ALLEN We romantic writers are there to make people feel and not think. A historical romance is the only ki...
BARBARA CARTLAND Even from the body's purity, the mind
Receives a secret sympathetic aid.
JAMES THOMSON (1) When a woman has lost her chastity, she will shrink from no
crime.
[Lat., Neque femina amissa pud...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained
And prayed me oft forbearance--did it with
A pudency s...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The noble sister of Publicola,
The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle
That's curded by the fro...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the
very ice of chastity is in them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liv...
JOHN MILTON 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity;
She that has that is clad in complete steel,
And, like a ...
JOHN MILTON As pure as a pearl,
And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl.
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") There's a woman like a dew-drop,
She's so purer than the purest.
ROBERT BROWNING Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet
ST. AUGUSTINE I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be ...
JOHN DONNE It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.
MADONNA 'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel
JOHN MILTON Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCE If she seem not chaste to me,
What care I how chaste she be?
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Mine honor's such a ring;
My chastity's the jewel of our house,
Bequeathed down from many ance...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, a...
MARY BAKER EDDY Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun,
Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
THOMAS MOORE A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity:
The deep air listen'd round her as she rode,
An...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Honey in his mouth, knives in his heart
CHINESE PROVERBS You are all camphire and frankincense, all chastity and odour.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
NATALIE DORMER Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readi...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should...
MERLE HAGGARD [Cardinal Pell accused schools with critical literacy programs of trying to turn students into] agen...
JOHN BELL Meetings should be like salt - a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly ...
JASON FRIED Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on...
RICH LITTLE Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD often in ways that were not readily foreseeable a year ago.
ALAN GREENSPAN George W. Bush always wanted to be like Ronald Reagan , rather than like his father.
THOMAS CRONIN Of those to whom too much is given - not much should be expected.
GRANT FAIRLEY I was like, 'Hey, Carmelo Anthony should be playing too.' . . . I think I could have helped.
DWYANE WADE communication and information must be freely and readily available to all humanity, not just the pri...
YOSHIO UTSUMI A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectu...
ANTHONY BURGESS A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although. . . he may be permitted to be an intellec...
ANTHONY BURGESS Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is ...
JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity. She that has that is clad in complete steel, and like a quivere...
JOHN MILTON Very seriously, people like that should be neutered. They should not be able to reproduce.
JOANNE SCHOCH Being natural is not always about what you look like or what you put in your mouth. What comes out o...
NERISSA IRVING I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JOHNSON I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JONSON I like you, George
ALAN KEYES I don't see why there should be a point where everyone decides you're too old. I'm not too old, and ...
LEMMY KILMISTER The Government is taking this very seriously. The first thing is that there are understandable conce...
BILL RAMMELL When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily...
DOROTHY THOMPSON It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, ob...
CAROLYN WHEAT A person like Donald Trump, who has said what he's said about Muslims, Mexicans, women, George B...
MITT ROMNEY Modesty and chastity are important values for us and we are not giving them up.
ANTONIO SCIORTINO The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures...
GEORGE SANTAYANA To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it
GEORGE SANTAYANA Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA There is no dunce like a mature dunce
GEORGE SANTAYANA