He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers.

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He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be s...
RICHARD HOOKER

if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no mor...
BIBLE

All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS

He that doth not as other men do, but endeavoureth that which ought to be done, shall thereby rather...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH They can be as angry as they want to. They ought to be ashamed. They're the ones that let a pedophil...
RITA COSBY

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be sa...
THOMAS JEFFERSON

I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Rita Cosby: Live and Direct. They can be as angry as they want to. They ought to be ashamed. They're...
ELEANOR COOK A man ought not to be governed by laws, in the framing of which he had not a voice, either in person...
CHARLES GREY 2ND EARL GREY A man ought not to be governed by laws, in the framing of which he had not a voice, either in person...
CHARLES GREY, 2ND EARL GREY

We think . . . that girls ought to sing. They ought to sing, and dance while they're singing. But...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu...
JAMES C. DOBSON It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, s...
JANE AUSTEN A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.
AMBROSE BIERCE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at a...
BIBLE Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
AMBROSE BIERCE Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
AMBROSE BIERCE Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.
AMBROSE BIERCE People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... He says some things which are taken as gospel, when they ought to be disputed. When he writes 'Coura...
ALAN BENNETT No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they s...
BIBLE A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Parents ought not be afraid to talk to their children early and often about sex, love and relationsh...
BILL ALBERT They that study much, ought not to eat so much as those that work hard, their Digestion being not so...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Voters will decide how they want to be governed.
EVANGELOS VENIZELOS They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is u...
BIBLE They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; t...
PATRICIA CHRISTIAN PUNCHES Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter ...
BIBLE He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what the...
E.M. FORSTER That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
DEYTH BANGER Children's play behaviour suggests that they are highly attentive to the use and enjoyment of alcoho...
MADELINE DALTON Quite apart from anything else, the rule of money sees to it that we shall be governed largely by th...
GEORGE ORWELL And what do they want!?
DEYTH BANGER To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governe...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Funny how you never hear novelists or painters say they work in the 'creative industries', but only ...
STEVE LOWE We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do...
HAROLD MACMILLAN Before everyone stands a image of what he ought to be. So long as he is not that his peace is not co...
RUCKETT For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they sh...
BIBLE We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, wh...
GEORGE SAINTSBURY Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every o...
BIBLE We take the simple view that, whether they are set up as a trust or a company, it makes sense that t...
BRIAN GIBSON I think it's important, however, that as we again talk about the importance of free speech we ma...
LORETTA LYNCH Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are t...
MAHATMA GANDHI As more and more Americans own shares of stock, more and more Americans understand that taxing busin...
GROVER NORQUIST Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
KAREENA KAPOOR KHAN Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have ca...
BIBLE Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
ALBERT CAMUS Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as n...
BIBLE What Richard and Mildred Loving did was, by their nature, not by any calculus, they separated themse...
JEFF NICHOLS With Thee, 'tis one to behold and to pity. Accordingly, Thy mercy followeth every man so long as he ...
NICOLAS OF CUSA Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon an...
BIBLE I would desire every divine to beware that he tell not the unsanctified, that whoever hath the least...
RICHARD BAXTER Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of ...
BIBLE Therefore bear up patiently as did the apostles endowed with constancy bear up with patience and do ...
QURAN That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths...
WILLIAM HAZLITT They who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed of, and are not ashamed of what they ought...
FRIEDRICH MAX MULLER He was talking about how those businesses should be able to move wherever they damn well please, and...
DAVID MEADOWS Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuri...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI [But] he could never take an audience seriously. If he took their advice, what they liked, that woul...
BARRY MILES Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
MAE WEST However, it seems that is never going to happen. So if people are going to filter, I want them to be...
REBECCA MACKINNON He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, b...
BIBLE He willeth we know that not only He taketh heed to noble things and to great, but also to little and...
JULIAN OF NORWICH People want to be happy, so they don't want to feel as though they're mired in this world of...
SHERYL WUDUNN School administrators are so concerned about discipline in school that they neglect the fundamental ...
KENT WILLIS Shall we never have done with that cliche, so stupid that it could only be human, about the sympathy...
SIDONIE GABRIELLE COLETTE People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It's because women are not ready to ...
MARINA ABRAMOVIC Some people feel good about helping others, and they do so often. They do not realize that their goo...
GARY ZUKAV Heroes have a rough time because they stand up when they ought not to, they speak when they ought no...
GEORGE FOREMAN This is a management team that has never held a board meeting in Boise. They don't want to be in fro...
DAVE PETSO For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the e...
BIBLE They are excited about the opportunity, but what is good about this team is that they are relaxed an...
HANS KLEINSCHMIDT And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not dim...
BIBLE If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ...
ORLANDO BLOOM The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also...
NICHOLAS CULPEPER Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengea...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
BIBLE You will never lose a battle if you know your own situation as well as that of the enemy.
VIKRANT PARSAI The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba s...
BIBLE Clearly, products for women are not as well scrutinized as products for men. It appears they never t...
EMILY MARTIN The dogs are much more loyal that you would expect because they want the companionship. They are mor...
FMHS PRESIDENT LINDA NORMAN Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a l...
BIBLE We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.
SUE JOHANSON They have not forgotten the Mysteries,' she said, ‘they have found them too difficult. They want a...
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY We ask drivers to be extremely cautious in terms of how attentive they are to all that is going on a...
HOWARD PAYNE Cops aren't really your friends, they are trying to be your friends but they are not....

DEYTH BANGER Do you not see that they wander about bewildered in every valley? / And that they say that which the...
QURAN It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on prob...
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He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers.

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