Prove Quotes - Page 37

• He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.

  Plautus

  Friendship, Needs, Friend In Need

  Titus Maccius Plautus, Richard Warner (1772). “Comedies of Plautus: Menaechmi. Epidicus. Mostellaria. Pseudolus”, p.115

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• With regard to the learned professions, little need be observed; they truly form no distinct interest in society . . . [discussing the landed, merchant, and learned classes in legislative assembly]. Will not the man of the learned profession, who will feel a neutrality to the rivalships between the different branches of industry, be likely to prove an impartial arbiter between them, ready to promote either, so far as it shall appear to him conducive to the general interests of society?

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Class, Different

  4 Copy quote

• We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.

  Eva Burrows

  Sex, Mean, Men

  23 Copy quote

• The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.

  James Dwight Dana

  Ocean, Earth, Facts

  James Dwight Dana (1872). “Corals and Coral Islands”, p.371

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The ability to provide choices and the right to make choices that prove not detrimental, are the fundamental ingredients of free trade and independence.

  John Truman Stoddert

  Freedom, Choices, Independence

  4 Copy quote

• Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.

  Desire-Joseph Mercier

  Sadness, Giving, Serenity

  6 Copy quote

• I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a fluke, and we have achieved this.

  Gianluca Basile

  Basketball, Bronze Medal, World

  8 Copy quote

• We came in today with a chip on our shoulder to prove who we are.

  Bill Laimbeer

  Basketball, Who We Are, Today

  7 Copy quote

• No sort of defense is needed for preaching outdoors, but it would take a very strong argument to prove that a man who has never preached beyond the walls of his meetinghouse has done his duty. A defense is required for services within buildings rather than for worship outside of them.

  William Booth

  Strong, Wall, Men

  41 Copy quote

• You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

  Edwin Meese

  White, House, Doubt

  8 Copy quote

• Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.

  Josh Billings

  Advice, Example, Good Examples

  Josh Billings (1874). “Everybody's Friend, Or Josh Billing's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor”, p.216

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man's field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.

  Eugenie Clark

  Men, Credit, Fields

  13 Copy quote

• This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Encouragement, Loss, Boys

  Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing, a Short Account of Its Present State, Hints Towards Its Improvement, and a Detail of Some Practical Experiments Conducive to that End”, p.50

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There may or may not be a God or gods; the Siblings do not concern themselves with proving or disproving such a thing. By definition, gods are more powerful than men, and thus quite able to fend for themselves without help.

  Steve Perry

  Powerful, Sibling, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some pitchers want to be known as the fastest throwers that ever lived. Some want to win 30 games in one season. Some want to pitch a no-hitter. All I want to do is the best I can, day after day. In other words, I want to prove I am the best.

  Tom Seaver

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

  11 Copy quote

• It's not so much what you accomplish in life that really matters, but what you overcome that proves who you are, what you are, and whether you are a champion.

  Johnny Miller

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

  55 Copy quote

• Have confidence in yourself and don't let people put you down or make you feel weak or worthless, because the more they put you down, the more you need to get back up and prove how wrong they are.

  Layne Beachley

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

  22 Copy quote

• I have nothing to prove to anyone. I only play for myself.

  Mark Philippoussis

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

  5 Copy quote

• Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Witty, Work, Views

  4 Copy quote

• Ignorance speaks loudly, so as to be heard; but its volume proves reason to doubt every word.

  Wes Fesler

  Ignorance, Doubt, Speak

  4 Copy quote

• We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.

  Bill W.

  Inspirational, Recovery, Choices

  102 Copy quote

• Anytime I was challenged and told I couldn't do something, I would absolutely have to prove the opposite. And I did.

  Heather Mills

  Recovery, Opposites

  48 Copy quote

• Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.

  Michael Kinsley

  Mean, Science, Air

  16 Copy quote

• We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.

  Emile Chartier

  Real, Want, Proof

  "The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time". Book by John M. Shanahan, September 1909.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance.

  Charles Henry Fowler

  Giving, Needs, Chance

  Charles Henry Fowler, William Harrison De Puy (1879). “Home and Health and Home Economics: A Cyclopedia of Facts and Hints for All Departments of Home Life, Health, and Domestic Economy”

  20 Copy quote

  Show source