Equal Quotes - Page 27

• There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  World, Goodness, Be Good

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1950). “Philadelphia Quaker: the letters of Hannah Whitall Smith”

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• We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Revenge, Kindness, Self

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• We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Envy, Weight

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• What a mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it.

  Anais Nin

  Heart, Blood, Ebb And Flow

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• Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

  Joseph Addison

  Complacency, Inferiors, Acceptable

  Joseph Addison (1858). “Works, Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition: Withletters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.498

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• God in his harmony has equal ends
  For cedar that resists and reed that bends;
  For good it is a woman sometimes rules,
  Holds in her hand the power, and manners, schools,
  And laws, and mind; succeeding master proud,
  With gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd,
  The somber human troop.

  Victor Hugo

  Appreciation, Women, School

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7782, Delphi Classics

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• In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Home, Equality

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• Let the punishment be equal with the offence.
  [Lat., Noxiae poena par esto.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Punishment, Offence

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• The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Brother, Philosophy, Philosopher

  Thomas Carlyle (1850). “Past and Present: Chartism and Sartor Resartus”

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• Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.

  Phillips Brooks

  Eye, Law, World

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• Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Equality, Men, Sight

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1939). “Song of Years”

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• There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

  Juvenal

  Believe, Power

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 622-24, Satires, IV, line 70, 1922.

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• Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.

  Meg Greenfield

  Attitude, Government, People

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• There is no bounty to be showed to such
  As have real goodness: Bounty is
  A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act
  Can take effect on them that have no power
  Of equal habitude to apprehend it?

  Ben Jonson

  Real, Spices, Virtue

  Ben Jonson, Margaret Jane Kidnie (2000). “Poetaster, Or, The Arraignment: Sejanus His Fall ; The Devil is an Ass ; The New Inn, Or, The Light Heart”, p.59, Oxford : Oxford University Press

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• Religion does what philosophy could never do; it shows the equal dealings of Heaven to the happy and the unhappy, and levels all human enjoyments to nearly the same standard. It gives to both rich and poor the same happiness hereafter, and equal hopes to aspire after it.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Philosophy, Giving, Heaven

  Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, select poems and comedies, with intr., notes and a life by J.F. Waller”, p.159

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• One should not be assigned one's identity in society by the job slot one happens to fill. If we truly believe in the dignity of labor, any task can be performed with equal pride because none can demean the basic dignity of a human being.

  Judith Martin

  Jobs, Work, Believe

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit.

  Francis Quarles

  Wise, Adversity, Brave

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• Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.

  Edmund Burke

  Hands, Skills, Understanding

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1511, Delphi Classics

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• Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.

  Edmund Burke

  Humble, Men, Mind

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.231

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• Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.

  Edmund Waller

  Faults, Innocence, Innocent

  Edmund Waller (1744). “Sammlung”, p.219

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• Between friends there is no bribery. ... the relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.

  Margaret Mead

  Friends, Beautiful, Clever

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• It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

  John Ruskin

  Appreciation, Men, Matter

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 1-2. of general principles and of truth”, p.2

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• To be different is to have value. In this sense all things have equal, absolute value. Each thing has absolute value and thus is equal to everything else.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Different, All Things, Absolutes

  Shunryu Suzuki, Mel Weitsman, Michael Wenger (1999). “Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai”, p.41, Univ of California Press

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• The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Women, Brain, Intelligence

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• Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Sports, Water, Care

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1997). “An Accidental Autobiography”, Mariner Books

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