Monosilabos Ma Quotes & Sayings

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined; but let the virtue of a definition be what it will, in the order of things, it seems rather to follow than to precede our enquiry, of which it ought to be considered as the result. It must be acknowledged that the methods of disquisition and teaching may be sometimes different and on very good reason undoubtedly; but for my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation, is incomparably the best; since not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew; it tends to set the reader himself in the track of invention, and to direct him into those paths in which the author has made his own discoveries, if he should be so happy as to have made any that are valuable. — Edmund Burke

If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church. — Isaac Barrow

There is no end or purpose to existence, only ceaseless creation and destruction, governed entirely by chance. — Stephan Greenblatt

Contemporary man looks down into his psyche, he may, if conditions are right, find under the water of his soul, lying in an area no one has visited for a long time, an ancient hairy man. — Robert Bly

Alas, I've tried to be honest, because honesty makes me feel less alone. — Anna Kendrick

You May Now Leave The FAYZ. — Michael Grant

Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality. — Lawrence Kushner

Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to those who watch the change and can trace its consequences; a harvest reared not by themselves but by the toils and cares of the great body of their fellow citizens. This is a state of things in which it may be said with some truth that laws are made for the few not for the many. — James Madison

Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness. — Victor Hugo

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm. — Freeman Dyson