If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from ro...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'c...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
THOMAS DE QUINCEY In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always b...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude i...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their ...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn compl...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order,...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from ro...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Paint me an eternal tea-pot, for I usually drink tea from eight o'clock at night to four o'clock in ...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to s...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of t...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated - everlasting farewells!
THOMAS DE QUINCEY But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Not the Opium-eater, but the opium, is the true hero of the tale, and the legitimate centre on which...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Oh! just, subtle, and mighty opium! that to the hearts of poor and rich alike, for the wounds that w...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY I question whether any Turk, of all that have entered the Paradise of Opium-eaters, can have had hal...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Turkish opium-eaters, it seems, are absurd enough to sit, like so many equestrian statues, on logs o...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY The silence was more profound than that of midnight; and to me the silence of a summer morning is mo...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY For my own part, without breach of truth or modesty, I may affirm that my life has been, on the whol...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Nothing, indeed, is more revolting to English feelings than the spectacle of a human being obtruding...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY I ran into pagodas, and was fixed for centuries at the summit or in secret rooms: I was the idol; I ...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY The opium-eater loses none of his moral sensibilities or aspirations.  He wishes and longs as earne...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Infirmity and misery do not of necessity imply guilt.
THOMAS DE QUINCEY I do not readily believe that any man having once tasted the divine luxuries of opium will afterward...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY A long, loud, and canorous peal of laughter.
THOMAS DE QUINCEY The immediate occasion of this practice was the lowness of wages, which at that time would not allow...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Prophet of evil I ever am to myself: forced for ever into sorrowful auguries that I have no power to...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Ideas! There is no occasion for them; all that class of ideas which can be available in such a case ...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY The town of L— represented the earth, with its sorrows and its graves left behind, yet not out of ...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY If in this world there is one misery having no relief, it is the pressure on the heart from the Inco...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once di...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!
THOMAS DE QUINCEY ("THE OPIUM EATER") Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear o...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY ("THE OPIUM EATER") There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of...
THOMAS DE QUINCEY ("THE OPIUM EATER") Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms
DE FINOD The more I saw of foreign countries the more I loved my own.
DE DELLOY An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
DE CHATEAUBRIAND Peace is a natural effect of trade.
DE MONTESQUIEU If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.
DE MONTESQUIEU Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
DE MONTESQUIEU In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the fo...
DE MONTESQUIEU There is a French saying: ''Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.''
DE FINOD We would prefer to see a more expedient transfer of properties and the backlog ? being cleared.
DE RAUVILLE Hope is the gay skylarking pajamas we wear over yesterday's bruises
DE CASSERES There has been softening in share prices after March month end.
DE RAUVILLE To remain virtuous a man has only to combat his own desires; a woman must resist her own inclination...
DE LATENA Most of those children don't have one-tenth of the opportunity my children had, and I don't think th...
DE KNUDSON I am extremely supportive of communities being able to make their own decisions regarding tobacco, a...
DE KNUDSON I believe there are many dysfunctional families in our community. I am particularly concerned about ...
DE KNUDSON Many of the students want to come back tomorrow. My hope is to introduce history to all of the stude...
DE HEARN It was a good education for the students.
DE HEARN We wanted the students to recognize and participate in the unique history of Wall. Students should h...
DE HEARN All bow to virtue, and then walk away
DE FINOD One of the greatest sources of suffering is to have an inborn sense of honor
DE CASSERES How intoxicating is the triumph of beauty, and how right it is to name it queen of the universe! Ho...
DE SURIN It is completely unacceptable how patients are treated by some of the staff and something has to be ...
DE LANGE Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelq...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that th...
BERNARD DE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.
ROGER DE RABUTIN DE BUSSY The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Obscurity is the realm of error. [Fr., L'obscurite est le royaume de l'erreur.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. [Fr., La clarte orne les pensees profondes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES An optimist is a man who plant two acorns and buy a hammock.
JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers. [Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good. [Fr., Les merchants sont toujours sur...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends. [Fr., La proserite fait peu d'amis.]
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. [Fr., Le fruit du travail est le plus d...
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The conscience of the dying belies their life.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES Prosperity makes few friends.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES The maxims of men reveal their characters.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
LUC DE CLAPIER DE VAUVANARGUES When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and ...
MICKALENE THOMAS The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodie...
THOMAS HOBBES Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or ev...
THOMAS SOWELL Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and th...
THOMAS BECKET I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible wo...
THOMAS SCHLAMME A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
THOMAS PAINE If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
THOMAS PAINE I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll ...
THOMAS LYNCH Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
THOMAS HARRIS It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh...
CLARENCE THOMAS Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBES Love and a red rose can't be hid.
THOMAS HOLCROFT Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the populatio...
THOMAS SOWELL One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonor...
THOMAS SOWELL The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't t...
THOMAS SOWELL Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of ...
THOMAS SOWELL The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evi...
THOMAS SOWELL That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
THOMAS PAINE The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
THOMAS PAINE I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, lovi...
THOMAS PAINE Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting ...
THOMAS PAINE An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
THOMAS PAINE These are the times that try men's souls.
THOMAS PAINE What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value...
THOMAS PAINE Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
THOMAS PAINE There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is ...
THOMAS HOBBES No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
THOMAS HOBBES Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
THOMAS HOBBES Words are the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after pow...
THOMAS HOBBES Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them w...
THOMAS AQUINAS God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
THOMAS AQUINAS How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
THOMAS AQUINAS If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the...
THOMAS AQUINAS It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of...
THOMAS AQUINAS Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the pers...
THOMAS AQUINAS Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
THOMAS AQUINAS The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINE An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a...
IRWIN THOMAS I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
IRWIN THOMAS I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
IRWIN THOMAS I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
IRWIN THOMAS People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'
IRWIN THOMAS I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
IRWIN THOMAS I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
IRWIN THOMAS Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
IRWIN THOMAS My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pen...
IRWIN THOMAS When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi...
IRWIN THOMAS I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
ISAIAH THOMAS Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.
ISAIAH THOMAS All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the K...
ISAIAH THOMAS I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.
ISAIAH THOMAS We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players.
ISAIAH THOMAS We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the ...
ISAIAH THOMAS It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into...
ISAIAH THOMAS My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free thro...
ISAIAH THOMAS The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run t...
ISAIAH THOMAS It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys ...
ISAIAH THOMAS Everybody wants to be perfect.
ISAIAH THOMAS You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's wha...
ISAIAH THOMAS I love what I'm doing.
ISAIAH THOMAS You have to develop your whole game to completion.
ISAIAH THOMAS It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?
ISAIAH THOMAS It's hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first....
ISAIAH THOMAS My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.
ISAIAH THOMAS Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
THOMAS PAINE Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hen...
THOMAS SOWELL A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
THOMAS JEFFERSON There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
THOMAS AQUINAS I always get more applause than votes.
NORMAN THOMAS To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is...
NORMAN THOMAS Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara...
NORMAN THOMAS If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
NORMAN THOMAS I walk where I choose to walk.
NORMAN THOMAS Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.
THOMAS PEREZ The real minimum wage is zero.
THOMAS SOWELL Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 will benefit about 28 million workers across the country. And it ...
THOMAS PEREZ Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not,...
THOMAS SOWELL The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the p...
THOMAS HOBBES You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed wi...
THOMAS TRAHERNE The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be sa...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.
THOMAS JEFFERSON We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
THOMAS JEFFERSON There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
THOMAS JEFFERSON When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Euro...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
THOMAS JEFFERSON For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their be...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should hav...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
THOMAS JEFFERSON One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results...
THOMAS JEFFERSON No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
THOMAS JEFFERSON It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by who...
THOMAS JEFFERSON The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor...
THOMAS JEFFERSON To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
THOMAS GRAY Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
THOMAS JEFFERSON