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"The lustre of a virtuous character cannot be defaced, nor can the vices of a vicious man ever become lucid. A jewel preserves its lustre, though trodden in the mud, but a brass pot, though placed upon the head, is brass still." »Panchatantra
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"But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument." »Andrew Schneider
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"Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for manipulating the world more successfully the former is essentially human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man." »Erich Fromm
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"brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away." »Sir Thomas Beecham
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"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing." »Mark Twain
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"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament." »Alanis Morissette
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"Gun is the instrument of the coward and the weak!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped." »Calvin Coolidge
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"There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." »J. S . Bach
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"Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having." »Ambrose Bierce
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"Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas." »Samuel Johnson
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"Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on." »Samuel Butler
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"Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on." »Samuel Butler
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"Knowledge is the only instrument of production That is not subject to the law of diminishing returns." »John Maurice Clark
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"Envy is a vice that would pose a man to tell what it should be liked for. Other vices we assume for that we falsely suppose they bring us either pleasure, profit, or honour. But in envy who is it can find any of these? Instead of pleasure, we vex and gall ourselves. Like cankered brass, it only eats itself, nay, discolours and renders it noisome. When some one told Agis that those of his neighbour?s family did envy him, ?Why, then,? says he, ?they have a double vexation?one, with their own evil, the other, at my prosperity.?" »Feltham
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"The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy." »Friedrich Engels
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"Sword and fist are the instruments of primitive; non-violence is the instrument of developed man!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity." »Stuart Seaton
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"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation." »George Santayana
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"If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity." »Daniel Webster
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"Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness." »Chamfort
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"The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence." »U.S. vs Cruikshan
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"Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning." »Robert Collier
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"He that is ambitious of fame destroys it. He that increaseth not his knowledge diminishes it. He that uses the crown of learning as an instrument of gain will pass away." »The Talmud
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"Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge." »Alexis Carrel
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"Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace." »Plato
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"Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it." »Charles Babbage
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"Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy." »Saint Francis of Assisi, "Prayer of St Francis" (attributed)
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"Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace Where there is hatred let me sow love Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith Where there is despair, hope Where there is darkness, light Where there is sadness, joy." »Saint Francis of Assisi
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"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace where there is hatred, let me sow love where there is injury, pardon where there is doubt, faith where there is despair, hope where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joy." »Unknown
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| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
