Quotes & Sayings About Power Causing Corruption

The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify. — J. B. Bury

We should earnestly desire but few things if we clearly knew what we desired. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them. — Matthew McConaughey

She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them. Isolated on a green island, hedged about with snowdrops, laid with a counterpane of puckered silk, the innocent island floated under her window. Only George lagged behind. — Virginia Woolf

Harvard just took that option out of our hands. He is truly on his own now. — Lara Adrian

..to laugh is proper to the man. — Francois Rabelais

Such huge money has been made in China - it can be hundreds of millions in a year - and there's a need to validate it by showing what they can buy and how much of it. — Kevin Kwan

How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer. — Abraham Lincoln

Get it out. The pain doesn't have as much power when you share it. — Daniel D. Maurer

Never again do you find friends like the ones you have when you're fifteen years old. — Fredrik Backman

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent. — George Canning