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"Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative." »Karl Popper
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"The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military." »William Orville Douglas
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""There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation."" »Herbert Spencer
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"The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men." »John Randolph
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"You've got to take the bitter with the sour." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle." »Will Durant
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"No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations." »Cornelius Tacitus
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"Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it." »Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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"What is food to one man is bitter poison to others." »Lucretius
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"What is food to one, is to others bitter poison." »Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
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"Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out." »Jewish Proverb
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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." »Aristotle
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"Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling." »Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Book Eleven
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"Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted." »Chinese Proverb
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"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain." »John Locke
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." »Aristotle
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"Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter." »Francis Bacon, Essays (1625)
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"Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest." »Samuel Johnson
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"Of all the griefs that harass the distrest,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest." »Samuel Johnson
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"It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death." »Mary Renault
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"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter." »Denis Diderot
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"Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses." »Robert Burton
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"Ah, what shall I be at fifty,
should nature keep me alive,
if I find the world so bitter
when I am but twenty-five?" »Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." »Mark Twain
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"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future." »Sydney J. Harris
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"If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"Opportunities lose not, for all delay is madness; ?Mid bitter sorrow patience show, for ?tis the key of gladness." »Turkish
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