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"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." »Horace
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"General Napoleon says that ability is of little account without opportunity. The opposite is also correct: Opportunity is of little account without ability." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence." »Benjamin Franklin
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"The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear." »Felix Adler
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"Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Ability is of little account without opportunity." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name." »Paula Poundstone
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"account no man happy till he dies." »Euripides
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"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." »Douglas Adams
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"Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest." »Professor Irwin Corey
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"Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness." »M. Hirschfield
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"Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"I put no account on him who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him." »Goethe
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"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account." »Oscar Wilde
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"When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account." »Haniel Long
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"A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not." »The Talmud
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"Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account." »Hannah Whitall Smith
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"I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things." »John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
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"A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last." »Joseph F. Newton
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"A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last." »Joseph F. Newton
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"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does." »Will Rogers
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"On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does." »Will Rogers
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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms." »George Eliot
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"Do not measure your loss by itself if you do, it will seem intolerable but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them." »Saint Basil
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"Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded." »Fulton John Sheen
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"Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them." »Saint Basil
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"If someone cheats you, get your money back. If someone slanders you, call him to account. If someone makes a promise, see that it is kept If you have to be a pest, then be one, and be proud of it." »Donald G. Smith
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"Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today, because you have written down what it cost yesterday." »Samuel Johnson
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"It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love." »Sir Arthur Helps
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"History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools." »Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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