| "All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination." »Charles De Gaulle |
| "The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it." »Mack R. Douglas |
| "I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see, I have friends in both places." »Mark Twain |
| "As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so" »Unknown |
| "The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity." »Helen Rowland |
| "Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more." »Mark Twain |
| "The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other." »Francis Bacon |
| "Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized by a madness which forces them to commit the very acts which made it certain that what they dread shall happen." »Dame Rebecca West |
| "The mayor gave no other answer than that deep guttural grunt which is technically known in municipal interviews as refusing to commit oneself." »Stephen Butler Leacock |
| "Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin." »Quentin Crisp |
| "Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination." »Harry S Truman |
| "commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle--he defeated the fear of trying." »Dr. Robert Schuller |
| "The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless." »Dorothy L. Sayers |
| "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." »Voltaire |
| "Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion." »Margaret Cho |
| " There are only two kinds of people who do not commit any sins: Unborn human beings and dead human beings!" »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "To be a saint is the exception to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation." »Victor Hugo |
| "While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence." »John B. Gough |
| "Today is Christmas Eve. Whether or not Christ was born exactly on this date is not important. But chronological accuracy has nothing to do with tonight's event. A grand genius had been born who preached truth and love; who suffered because of his mission; and on account of his sufferings the world has become better, if not saved. Only it gives me nausea to see how some people abuse his name to commit numerous crimes. If he is in heaven, he will certainly protest! (24 December 1886)" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide." »Ben Bova |
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