Without Quotes

"Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers"

"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Nothing can have value without being an object of utility"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it"

Ralph Marston, Writer

"I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"Never was anything great achieved without danger"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist