There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Edmund Wilson
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DEYTH BANGER Nothing hurts more than having to pay an income tax, unless it is not having to pay an income tax.
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THOMAS ROBERT DEWAR I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Great achievements are nothing more than a collection of small accomplishments.
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BEN JOHNSON (SALES) I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
WILL DURANT I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
WILKIE COLLINS There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
HERODOTUS There is nothing more powerful and nothing more dangerously beautiful than a free mind.
BRYANT MCGILL There is nothing wrong with being afraid---but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be ...
BOBBY DARIN There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The reserves are more than adequate. Maybe it is becoming excessive.
JAMES MCCORMACK There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cann...
CONFUCIUS There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
SOPHOCLES There is nothing more attractive than a nice smile
CHARLES M. SCHULZ There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh.
GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS There's nothing more demoralizing than losing, and then you lose your starting quarterback. I think ...
DERRICK MASON More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.
DAVID SUZUKI There is nothing more intoxicating than victory, and nothing more dangerous.
ROBERT GREENE Integrity is more significant than income. Honor is more opulent than fame. Self worth is more afflu...
SRAVANI SAHA NAKHRO Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.
SOPHOCLES In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewa...
BRAD MELTZER There is nothing more important in this world than this. Nothing.
ASHLEY JUDD There's nothing more invigorating than being deeply involved with a small company and a young te...
MICHAEL MORITZ There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMES There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMES There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision
WILLIAM JAMES Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, ju...
WILLIAM C. REDFIELD Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, j...
WILLIAM C. REDFIELD There is nothing more dangerous to a person other than a good friend of his conversation, but bad de...
LYZ STANDSTRODE There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to b...
STEFAN ZWEIG There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.
ROSALYNN CARTER no class at Wilson has more than 22 students at this time.
TIM ALLEN There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT There is nothing more savage than modern civilization.
BRYANT MCGILL There is nothing more refreshing than total honesty.
G. BRIAN BENSON Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening th...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening th...
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothin...
DAVID OGILVY Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
CHARLES KINGSLEY But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me tha...
CHARLOTTE BRONTĂ« This is a way to pay your dues and feel like you're contributing in a small way, ... There's nothing...
BOB COUSY There is nothing more beautiful than a vulnerable heart in open hands.
AMANDA MOSHER There is nothing more productive of problems than a really good solution.
DR. NATHAN S. KLINE There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
P. J. HARVEY There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
GOETHE There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
JOHANN VON GOETHE There is nothing more wonderful than freedom of speech.
ILYA G. EHRENBURG There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
JOSEPH ADDISON There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.
KIRK CAMERON There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
UNKNOWN There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
J.I. PACKER There is nothing more difficult than talking about music
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS There is nothing more important in life than love.
BARBRA STREISAND There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX There is no income tax in Russia. But there's no income.
WILL ROGERS Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
PLAUTUS Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
OSCAR WILDE It is difficult to imagine a more demoralizing prospect for the 2006 and 2008 elections.
EDWARD WHELAN There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
MARK CAINE The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.
THOMAS DEWAR For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real ...
JACKIE CHAN There is nothing more I love more than being in a throw-down on a Saturday night.
DONALD CERRONE Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more pos...
AUSTIN GROSSMAN There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more...
A. J. P. TAYLOR There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
VINCENT VAN GOGH There is nothing more important than ones relationship with God.
ADE OKELARIN There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
UMBERTO ECO There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI There is nothing more powerful against negativity, than sustained compassion
ODILLE RAULT There is nothing more precious than the wealth of time.
SUNDAY ADELAJA There is nothing more silent than an attack at sea.
DAVIS BUNN We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
BERTRAND RUSSELL There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every Ame...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has gro...
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
DAVE BARRY There is nothing more foreign to a civilised and democratic system than preventive detention.
ROBERT BOURASSA There is nothing in the world more pathetic than a bunch of wilted dandelions.
SHANNON WIERSBITZKY Indeed, there is nothing on this earth more peaceful than a sleeping, purring cat.
JONATHON SCOTT PAYNE In Creation, there is nothing more holy than every day life.
HANNO LANGENHOVEN There is nothing I detest more than an algebraic word problem.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER There is nothing more depressing than toast that no one eats.
PETER HEDGES We're well within a 10 year framework of that high school being well more than adequate.
MICHAEL BAIR It's not time enough for a really adequate sample size, but we have to be patient. Five starts [will...
THEO EPSTEIN For seniors on a fixed income, this rate increase is just more than they can bear.
LORI PARHAM Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutt...
BILL WALSH There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
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EDMUND HILLARY No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
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EDMUND HILLARY I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
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EDMUND BARTON Creating a nation requires the will of the people!
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EDMUND BARTON It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
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EDMUND BURKE My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
EDMUND BURKE The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is
the greatest of all possible evils; ...
EDMUND BURKE By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassin...
EDMUND MORGAN The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system,
are wisely careful never to set up a...
EDMUND BURKE But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a
refinement on the principle of resist...
EDMUND BURKE What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in
the heart.
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EDMUND WALLER The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er;
So calm are we when passions are no more!
EDMUND WALLER The balance of power.
EDMUND BURKE Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
EDMUND BURKE You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and
in the political world, from the re...
EDMUND BURKE I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an
whole people.
EDMUND BURKE There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history
of Roman jurisprudence, whom they c...
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EDMUND SPENSER Who will not mercie unto others show,
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EDMUND SPENSER Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
EDMUND SPENSER It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.
EDMUND SPENSER Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.
EDMUND SPENSER Anger manages everything badly.
EDMUND SPENSER There is no disputing about taste.
[Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.]
EDMUND SPENSER Although the last, not least.
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virtue and every prudent act--is f...
EDMUND BURKE You have the God-given right to kick the government around--don't hesitate to do so.
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Each note of which calls like a little sister,
Those...
EDMUND ROSTAND Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the
hoofs of a swinish multitude.
EDMUND BURKE