I Quotes
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“It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.”
“It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.”
“It is a well-known mystery that guitar players suddenly get better once they are dead. Buddy Holly was the first. Stevie Ray Vaughan is known by a lot more people than had ever heard of him when he was alive.”
“It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war.”
Source: Messages ...: With a Short Sketch of His Life
“It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves.”
Source: What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
“It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility.”
“It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.”
Source: Fear God and Take Your Own Part
“It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.”
Source: Writings on Art
“It is a widespread and firm belief among guests that their departure is always a matter of distress to their hosts, and that in order to indicate that they have been pleasantly entertained, they must demonstrate an extreme unwillingness to allow the entertainment to conclude. This is not necessarily true.”
Source: Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium
“It is a wise child that knows his own father.
[Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]”
“It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
“It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.”
“It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.”
“It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.”
“It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather, an ebook”
“It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.”
Source: Three Early Modern Utopias: Thomas More: Utopia / Francis Bacon: New Atlantis / Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines
“It is a wise person that does not anger the Hawaiians.”
“It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.”
Source: Some everyday folk and dawn
“It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the use of it within the limits of its faculties, "never to borrow a dollar without laying a tax in the same instant for paying the interest annually, and the principal within a given term; and to consider that tax as pledged to the creditors on the public faith."”
Source: Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States
“It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)
“It is a woman‘s duty to set the role a man should play in the relationship; she should NOT do it overtly though but seductively.
Women who know how to ‘Lead with DESIRE’ have the ability to craft the energy that a man should operate in. They can make him LOVE playing the bills because it makes him feel alive.”
“It is a woman‘s duty to set the role a man should play in the relationship; she should NOT do it overtly though but seductively.
Women who know how to ‘Lead with DESIRE’ have the ability to craft the energy that a man should operate in. They can make him LOVE playing the bills because it makes him feel alive rather than because it’s his ‘responsibility’.”
“It is a woman's business to be interested in the environment. It's an extended form of housekeeping.”
“It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.”
“It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will.”
Source: An Exposition of the Prophecy of Hosea
“It is a woman, and only a woman, — a woman all by herself, if she likes, and without any man to help her, — who can turn a house into a home.”
Source: The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures
“It is a wonder, O Juss, that thou shouldst hold out to such mucky dogs a hand without a whip in it.”
Source: The worm Ouroboros
“It is a wonder of the world to notice how fundamentally people change from one second to the next when they are given their own way.”
Source: The Watch Tower
“It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.”
“It is a wonderful fact that men and women saved by the blood of Jesus rarely remain subjects of charity, but rise at once to comfort and respectability... I never saw a man who put Christ first in his life that wasn't successful.”
“It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.”
“It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.”
Source: The Art Of Happiness At Work
“It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.”
Source: The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index
“It is a wonderful thing to be liked by a stranger, but without respect it is pointless. It is like pulling the pedals off a rose and throwing the stem at the person you like. It’s creepy, but had good intentions that suddenly experienced some strange form of verticillium wilt, during the climate change of their mood.”
“It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.”
“It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too long separated the head from the heart, and we are the lesser for it. We love God with the mind and we love God with the heart. In reality, we are descending with the mind into the heart and there standing before God in ceaseless wonder and endless praise. As the mind and the heart work in concert, a kind of loving rationality pervades all we say and do. This brings unity to us and glory to God.”
“It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.”
Source: Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements
“It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.”
“It is a wonderful, moving, heart-filling experience to sit with the man or woman you love and your beloved children and know that all are happy to be just where they are with each other and loving one another. This doesnt happen very often.”
Source: Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction
“It is a word that's quickly spoken, which being unrestrained, a heart is broken”
“It is a work of psychogeography, albeit in a less explicit sense than Iain Sinclair's or Will Self's. It had to be fiction though, because I needed that freedom of including whatever belonged, and cutting out whatever didn't. The main fiction in it was matching Julius' generous and self-concealing character to New York's generous and self-concealing character. I think this also adds to my answer about New York's personality in the book.”
“It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe. Perhaps because the entire world continues to dream of New York, even as New York dominates and exploits it.”
Source: America
“It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral.”
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“It is a world of citizens, citizens are its lifeblood. You and I are its caretakers, not some elected vanguard.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour.”
Source: Oliver Twist
“It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.”
Source: Einstein's Dreams