He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
Samuel Johnson
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.
GLORIA STEINEM But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his ti...
ROBERT PEEL That young man will either be killed by you or he will spend the rest of his life in prison in a cou...
DAVID BAUGH Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the ...
DANIEL PIPES Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.
ADOLF HITLER To be betrayed by those he trusted seems to have ignited a spark of vengeance in Temujin, a desire f...
CONN IGGULDEN Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
HENRY FIELDING He is not prepared, today, to state whether he will waive (extradition) or not. His mental acuity is...
KATHRYN BENFIELD No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the...
SOCRATES Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?
SARAH DESSEN Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of command...
XENOPHON The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)
TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration t...
AMBROSE BIERCE Life will either shrink or expand based on your decision to have courage.
SHANNON L. ALDER The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enri...
GILBERT HIGHET We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.
BUTCH TRUCKS But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him
BIBLE The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is right he ...
CONFUCIUS St. Paul did not want the sufferings encountered by being a Christian to discourage or dishearten an...
MOTHER ANGELICA Things last either too long, or not long enough,
OSCAR WILDE You're either feeding the spirit and starving the flesh or feeding the flesh and starving the spirit...
FATHOM He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage lose...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage lose...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself...
GEORG GRODDECK A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the va...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Saying of the Prophet.
Lies, promises, trust
He is not of mine who lies, breaks a promise ...
IDRIES SHAH It's unfortunate to be bitten by political ambition. The deadly disease causes a man to want to acce...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To ...
JAMES GRAHAM He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To ...
JAMES GRAHAM Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails,
And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Either wealth is much increased, or moderation is much decayed.
GEORGE HERBERT Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796 A Christian cannot ...
LYOF N. TOLSTOY Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enig...
EDWARD DAHLBERG There is no way to counterfeit courage; we either have it or we do not
T.F. HODGE He that will do thee a good turne, either he will be gon or dye.
GEORGE HERBERT Like it or not... that's my story and I can't do that or that each action by itself is a limitation.
DEYTH BANGER To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR He will not carry his wealth to the waters of Acheron.
MATTHEW PRIOR If there is an essence to this wordly life, then it is the basis of honesty [morality]. If you have ...
DADA BHAGWAN Power is not something that we can bestow on another person. It is something he
or she already has w...
GAIL PURSELL ELLIOTT He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors afte...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Samuel Beckett's estate will not license productions of his plays that are not performed as writ...
TERRY TEACHOUT Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.
HAROLD BLOOM Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
E. M. FORSTER It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected...
BEN GAZZARA Invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.” ~ Samuel John...
J.J. MCAVOY In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not ...
DAVID RICARDO He that goes far to marry, will either deceive or be deceived
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of ...
HELEN FIELDING When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
EDWARD DAHLBERG Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had r...
STEPHEN AMBROSE Men, in a word, must necessarily be controlled, either by a power within them, or by a power without...
ROBERT CHARLES WINTHROP Weak men cannot handle power. It will either crush them, or they will use it to crush others
JOCELYN MURRAY He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, is a poor, ...
JOANNA BAILLIE [Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and p...
PRIMO LEVI The wolf is a hot-button species. It never fails to ignite passions, either for or against.
ROLF PETERSON He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part
if attacked by another, that man i...
UNKNOWN The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized communit...
JOHN STUART MILL You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough
FRANK CRANE A 19th?century European in a comparable position would have needed extraordinary privilege ? such as...
RODNEY DAVIS You're either in it for the long haul or you're not.
CRYSTAL GAYLE No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness w...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Try, if you will, to imagine Dwight Eisenhower or JFK or Lyndon Johnson or, for that matter, Ronald ...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other pu...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized communit...
JOHN STUART MILL Never there is no way a persistent mind will not become a success either in his/her 20's or 30's or ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or h...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was reje...
BEN GAZZARA Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL He wrote about nothing that didn't carry either his name or his initials-sometimes his pieces were s...
WOLCOTT GIBBS A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad,
will work out his ruin.
SYRUS PUBLILIUS SYRUS There will be sentencing and some further consequences at that time. I think you either need a long-...
KURT COBAIN There will be consolidation whether the bid succeeds or fails.
CATARINA PEDROSA The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Christianity is not as natural in man's heart as either tongue in his mouth or heart in his chest.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalen...
FRANK HERBERT The real Jack Johnson was both more and less than those who loved or those who hated him ever knew. ...
GEOFFREY WARD One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love f...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE As a result of his racquetball endeavors, he injured his eye.
BARRY LEVIN It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort whic...
GOTTHOLD LESSING To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not...
BRUNO DUMONT Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
SALVADOR DALI Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
SALVADOR DALí He had a night where if he got it in his hands, he was either going to get to the foul line or hit a...
JOSH MCPHERSON Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 A ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man is either free or he is not.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere...
FRANK SWINNERTON Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have t...
PYTHAGORAS His nature is too noble for the world.
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,
Or Jove f...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After his experience with Minos, Nico realized that most spectres held only as much power as you all...
RICK RIORDAN The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looki...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN History has always done enough of praise for MOM; it is time to raise our living standards to gracef...
ANUJ SOMANY If you have been giving people the opportunities to be themselves, you won't talk of chances.
APURVA GAGLANI Truth or Dare ?
Dare!
Love me Back!
ANSHUL SRIVASTAVA Stupids enjoy life the most for they can never realize the value of the precious things lost & the l...
ANUJ SOMANY
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom natur...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
SAMUEL JOHNSON I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be sile...
SAMUEL JOHNSON He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors afte...
SAMUEL JOHNSON To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the f...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again exp...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: b...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
SAMUEL JOHNSON While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No one ever became great by imitation.
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