Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Whichcote

Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.

Benjamin Whichcote

Let not a man's self be to him all in all.

Benjamin Whichcote

Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.

Benjamin Whichcote

An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.

Benjamin Whichcote

Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.

Benjamin Whichcote

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

Benjamin Whichcote

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.

Benjamin Whichcote

None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.

Benjamin Whichcote

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?

Benjamin Whichcote

Joy is the life of man's life.

Benjamin Whichcote

A good man's life is all of a piece.

Benjamin Whichcote

Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.

Benjamin Whichcote

Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.

Benjamin Whichcote

It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.

Benjamin Tucker

First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.

Benjamin Tucker

The main question ... is not what motive inspired the law, but what it will be possible for men of bad motive to do with the law ...

Benjamin Tucker

Anarchism may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished..... Nor does the Anarchistic scheme furnish any code of morals to be imposed upon the individual. "Mind your own business" is its own moral law. Interference with another's business is a crime and the only crime, and as such may properly be resisted.

Benjamin Tucker

If I go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich. Authority may (and may not) make all men equally rich in purse; it certainly will make them equally poor in all that makes life best worth living.

Benjamin Tucker

He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man ... or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.

Benjamin Tucker

In times past...it was my habit to talk glibly of the right of man to land. It was a bad habit, and I long ago sloughed it off. Man's only right to land is his might over it. If his neighbor is mightier than he and takes the land from him, then the land is his neighbor's, until the latter is dispossessed by one mightier still.

Benjamin Tucker

Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.

Benjamin Tucker

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

Bill Gates

(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.

Bill Gates

Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?

Bob Uecker

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.

Bob Seger

Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?

Bo Sanchez

Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.

Chauncey Depew

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

Chavela Vargas

I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

In the scale of life there is a gradual decline in physical variability, as the organism has gathered into itself resources for meeting the exigencies of changing external conditions; and that while in the mindless and motionless plant these resources are at a minimum, their maximum is reached in the mind of man, which, at length, rises to a level with the total order and powers of nature, and in its scientific comprehension of nature is a summary, an epitome of the world.

Chaz Bono

So when I was about 13 or 14, I realized I was attracted to women and then made the assumption that I was a lesbian, and didn't realize that that wasn't the case. It was the fact that I was a man and a heterosexual man. The issue wasn't my sexual orientation, but rather my gender identity.