The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible
amount of feathers with the smallest possible
amount of hissing.
View quotes by Jean Baptiste ColbertAs the biggest library, if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast
amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller
amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
View quotes by Arthur SchopenhauerThe
amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the
amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
View quotes by John Stuart MillEccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the
amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the
amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
View quotes by John Stuart MillHow can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you
amount to.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheA person must have a certain
amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
View quotes by Charles KetteringThere is actually a fair
amount of money being put behind science today.
View quotes by David BaltimoreThere is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain
amount.
View quotes by Graham ChapmanIf you are an athlete, then you have to be prepared to do a certain
amount of things you don't necessarily want to.
View quotes by Tyler HamiltonBusiness is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain
amount of scratching around for what it gets.
View quotes by Henry FordThere's been probably a ten-fold
amount of information about terrorism through the media.
View quotes by Peter GarrettA certain
amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
View quotes by Lewis MumfordYou can judge your age by the
amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
View quotes by Pearl BuckNo
amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses
View quotes by LeninYou have to allow a certain
amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
View quotes by Mortimer AdlerSociety can exist only on the basis that there is some
amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
View quotes by Lin YutangWhat normally happens when you write something is that for a certain
amount of time you're absolutely convinced that it's the best thing in the world, that nobody else could possible have done it.
View quotes by Joe StillmanA certain
amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.
View quotes by Suzanne Curchod NeckerEngland always play under a huge
amount of pressure. Australia are used to dealing with it and they just roll on.
View quotes by Stephen FlemingThe most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the
amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
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