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"The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock." »Sam Ervin
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"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too." »Voltaire
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"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too." »Voltaire, Essay on Tolerance
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"To believe God is a privilege, To doubt God is an insult." »Unknown
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"Choice has always been a privilege of those who could afford to pay for it." »Ellen Frankfort
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"Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege." »Unknown
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"The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only." »Thomas Hobbes
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"Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled." »Noam Chomsky
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"Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many." »Unknown
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"You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it." »Albert Schweitzer
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"Do not regret growing older. It's a privilege denied to many." »Unknown
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"It is the province of knowledge to speak
And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." »Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'." »Hume
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"Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility." »Louis
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"We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I'm not going to let anybody come down at night like Nicodemus and whisper something in my ear that no one else can hear. That is not executive privilege it is poppycock." »Sam James Ervin, Jr.
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"Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity." »Oprah Winfrey
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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"“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love…then make that day count!"" »Steve Maraboli
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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap." »Jacques Martin Barzun
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"We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege." »Lawton Chiles
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"I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'" »Earl Warren
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"Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight ... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. (Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule)" »L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
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"A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches- that is the right and privilege of any free American." »16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.
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"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected." »Charles Lamb
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"It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art." »Johnson
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"To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one." »Schopenhauer
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"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely." »Hesketh Pearson
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