Without Quotes: Embracing Life's Moments of Absence (Page 11)

"Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on"

Robert Frost, Poet

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence"

Robert Frost, Poet

"Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"Fools are without number"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs"

Edward Young, Poet

"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed"

Ronald Reagan, President

"Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"Courage without conscience is a wild beast"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all"

Clive James, Author

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"No pleasure has any savor for me without communication"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

Confucius, Philosopher

"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good"

Confucius, Philosopher

"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure"

Confucius, Philosopher

"The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

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