Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.
This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men.
Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.
Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Think tanks are chiefly supposed to provide independent expertise to policymakers. But they also seek to be politically relevant.
The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
'On earth the living have much to bear;' the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that would throw thousands out of work.
We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.
I like to write about a lot of things, which is why my books are different. This is probably why I don't like to write sequels, but chiefly I like to write about people.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.
How does a poet teach himself or herself? I think chiefly by imitation, chiefly by practising it as a deliberate technical exercise often. Translation, imitation, those were my methods anyway.
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
