A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
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CHARLES DEAN Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.
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EVELYN WAUGH Boring people live boring lives.
HABEEB AKANDE Be who God called you to be. Live for the an audience of ONE.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA Financial parasites: greedy people who live luxurious life at the expense and hard work of others." ...
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ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti...
FENNEL HUDSON A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hir...
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NATALIE GOLDBERG Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes...
BOB RILEY Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness...
JüRGEN MOLTMANN The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called
the savior of society by the next...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, withou...
B. CARROLL REECE All work is noble; the only ignoble thing is to live without working. There is need to realize the v...
MARIA MONTESSORI Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever...
JAMES E. FAUST Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE Love is not about who you live with... It's about who you can't live without.
UNKNOWN Peace is not about who you can live with, but who you can't live without.
SHANNON L. ALDER Those of us who began working in the 1960s and '70s live to work. Our identity is wrapped up in what...
ELAINE DECK The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
PHILLIPS BROOKS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY He'd never forget what Naasir had said to him when Dmitri yelled that he didn't intend to bury anoth...
NALINI SINGH It is Cameron's cabinet of millionaires who are the real spongers given free rein to live out th...
MARTIN MCGUINNESS No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything
to his own advantage. Thou m...
SENECA Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybo...
FR Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybo...
FREDERIC BASTIAT Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybo...
FREDERIC BASTIAT Because I know you live on the hope of seeing a better tomorrow, unlike the skeptics who have nothin...
NELY CAB Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Live is for an Internet achiever-someone who feels the Internet can empower them.
JOANNE BRADFORD Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Even the man who most feels himself "settled" i...
HENRY FORD The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.
FREDERIC BASTIAT Only a person who can live with himself can enjoy the gift of leisure
HENRY GREBER The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
FRéDéRIC BASTIAT I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I se...
DIOGENES I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I se...
DIOGENES Almighty God teach you my dear brother...more wit and knowledge than to be taken in by a good for no...
CECIL WOODHAM-SMITH That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself.
KAREN MARIE MONING Seasoning one’s claims with self-irony and modesty, cultivating a tolerance for moral ambiguity, p...
JANE BENNETT Greet Sunrise.Salute Sunset.Embrace life your own unique journey has begun
HANS FLEISCHER i don't trust or have a faith in anything but i just know very well that my past experience so i do ...
HEM KUMAR PUN Live your life with love in your heart, and no matter what people say or may think help others and l...
MIKE BOLTON Sadly, we give little thought or consideration to the messages that we entertain.
ASA DON BROWN Responsibility is the admission that you have a role in this game called life.
ASA DON BROWN Your spiritual mind is greater than your physical mind.
ASA DON BROWN I, too, have made many mistakes, but one valuable lesson that I have learned is that we cannot allow...
ASA DON BROWN Our human quest is to survive; our spiritual quest is to unite.
ASA DON BROWN Life is a combination of our positive and negative choices.
ASA DON BROWN But are you finding monastic history a very compelling reason to live?"
"I'm not human," he sai...
RACHEL HARTMAN The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone ...
FREDERIC BASTIAT I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
NADINE GORDIMER I have better understanding how difficult and complex life can be, fortunately I know when not to ta...
SHELLIE PALMER Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal
ANDREW FAIRCHILD Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ...
EUGINIA HERLIHY Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love. Then you will k...
OSHO One who is not afraid to die lives, and one who is afraid to live dies.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO It's a a damn good day to be alive.
MICHAEL CLIFFORD It's certainly helpful for the commuters, but it comes at the expense of people trying to use their ...
CHRIS MCGOVERN The path to love is the path to get to know things more, The more you know, the more you love. We ea...
EPHDAN I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT To live without love for others is to live in aridity, to be self-serving and fruitless. To live wit...
BELSEBUUB The statement "I can not live without you" is simply ludicrous. One is able to live without that cer...
DUY NGUYEN I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
NADINE GORDIMER People who live and work downtown need this type of service. And hair stylists will attract people w...
EDDIE BUMBAUGH It is a big world that we live in, and people have a choice to love who they love.
CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
HORACE Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and st...
CALVIN TRILLIN The reason why we are all different is to allow us to; to keep learning about each other so we can k...
DEE DEE ARTNER I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned him...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL There is one in the world who feels for him who is sad a keener pang than he feels for himself; ther...
WASHINGTON IRVING Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will chang...
JAMES CLAVELL I live in my own place - have never copied nobody even half, and at any master who lacks the grace -...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because
he is sufficient for himself, must ...
ABIGAIL ADAMS He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must b...
ARISTOTLE You don't marry someone you can live with, you marry the person who you cannot live without.
HELEN ROWLAND You don’t marry someone you can live with, you marry the person who you cannot live without.
ALEATHA ROMIG There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. A
PATRICK CARMAN We are hell different but vanity keeps us stuck.
PARUL WADHWA Who set the standard for us to live by? It is the traditions of the dead that will forever weigh upo...
ANDONI GARCIA In a world of words, anything is possible...
LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal l...
WILLIAM PENN We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY How to live life;If we live each day as if it will be our very last,one day we will be absolutely co...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the wo...
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