Quotes
Quotes about Cause
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.
At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.
A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver.
Businesses are successful because someone makes the sacrifices others are unwilling to.
I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them . . .
Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer
The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]
O dearest soul, your cause doth strike my heart With pity that doth make me sick.
Mad let us grant him them, and now remains That we find out the cause of this effect-- Or rather say, the cause of this defect, For this effect defective comes by cause. Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
Hence, therefore, every leader to his charge; For, on their answer, will we set on them, And God befriend us as our cause is just!
Mine's not an idle cause.
Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things. [Lat., Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.]
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly ;for one.
Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing someof the most important things in life. Unless you give ;yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that ;their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.
