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Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them. »Author Unknown
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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. »Publilius Syrus
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Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. »Carl Sandburg
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Valour needs first strength, then a weapon. »J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
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Value your words. Each one may be the last. »Stanislaw Lec
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Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others. »Johathan Sacks
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Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music. »Nikki Harris
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Vanity is the quicksand of reason. »George Sands
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Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason. »Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Variety is the soul of pleasure. »Aphra Behn
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. »Fran Lebowitz
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Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. »Sir Robert Hutchison
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Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. »Sir Robert Hutchinson
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Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.) »Gaius Julius Caesar
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Veni, vidi, vici. I came, I saw, I conquered »Julius Caesar
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Veni, vidi, vici.
[I came, I saw, I conquered] »Julius Caesar, from Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars
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Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. »Dan Quayle
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Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms. »Prophet Muhammad, Muslim
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Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read. »Voltaire
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Very distasteful is excessive fame To the sour palate of the envious mind, Who hears with grief his neighbours good by name, And hates the fortune that he ne?er shall find. »Pindar
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Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically. »Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
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Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. »Herodotus
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Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it. »Eric Nicol
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Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. »P. J. O'Rourke
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Very little is needed to make a happy life. »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. »Rmy de Gourmont
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Vicious minds abound with anger and revenge are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. »Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. »Sun-tzu
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Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first then seek to win. »Sun Tzu
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