| "Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special." »Fran Lebowitz |
| "The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest." »Conan Doyle |
| "I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me." »Terence |
| "If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "We talk on principle, but we act on interest." »Walter Savage Landor |
| "To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life." »Frank Gelett Burgess |
| "There are two levers for moving men interest and fear." »Napoleon Bonaparte |
| "My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." »Charles Franklin Kettering |
| "Our ego is our silent partner--too often with a controlling interest." »Cullen Hightower |
| "Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due." »William Ralph Inge |
| "The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas." »Judge John Kane |
| "My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary." »Albert Einstein |
| "Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life." »James F. Byrnes |
| "Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life" »Yassine Aumerally |
| "A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students." »John Anthony Ciardi |
| "The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later." »Confucius |
| "To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully." »Tryon Edwards |
| "Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "About the rhinoceros Here is an animal with a hide two feet think and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste." »Randolph Silliman Bourne |
| "It is possible by long-continued practice, not merely in lying, but in talking on subjects in which we have no real interest, not to know when we are sincere and when we are not." »Mark Rutherford |
| "The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present." »George Santayana |
| "There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results." »Art Turock |
| "Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love." »Frank Moore Colby |
| "For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own." »Athenus |
| "Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity." »Pope John Paul II |
| "He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay." »Horace |
| "The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ... What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it." »Henry Kissinger |
| "As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so." »Charles De Gaulle |
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