| "I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches." »Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
| "I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'." »William Shakespeare |
| "An empty stomach is not a good political advisor." »Albert Einstein |
| "All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action." »Demosthenes |
| "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." »Malcolm Stevenson Forbes |
| "It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
| "Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart." »Sophocles |
| "Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals)" »Mao Zedong |
| "The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world." »David Dean Rusk |
| "Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage." »Babylonian Talmud |
| "I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie." »Walker Best |
| "What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed" »Michelangelo Buonarroti |
| "I've lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust Now all that's left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust." »Alekandr Sergeyevick Pushkin |
| "Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen." »Peggy Noonan |
| "Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God." »John Bunyan |
| "Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space." »Diana Black |
| "Damn it, Pierre, what do you want me to do We'll go sit with empty chairs to get those guys back to the table. (To Pierre Trudeau, prime minister of Canada)" »Ronald Reagan |
| "The American ideal is youth -- handsome, empty youth." »Henry Miller |
| "A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory an empty gin bottle." »Erma Bombeck |
| "The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden." »Johann von Goethe |
| "The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell." »Saint Augustine |
| "Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word." »Alan Simpson |
| "Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach." »Woodrow Wilson |
| "The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty." »Johann von Goethe |
| "If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater." »Unknown |
| "American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror." »Betty Naomi Friedan |
| "When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings" »William C. Bagley |
| "It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses." »Charles Peguy |
| "If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign" »Albert Einstein |
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