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Have regard to the end. [Lat., Finem respice (or Respice finem).]
CHILO OF SPARTA (CHILON) Mutually giving and receiving aid, They set each other off, like light and shade.
CHILO OF SPARTA CHILON Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
CHILO OF SPARTA CHILON Consider the end.
CHILO OF SPARTA CHILON Consider the end.
CHILO OF SPARTA (CHILON) 'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled an...
ALEXANDER BROME Some people not only like or share some news or someone’s views on own social media account but al...
ANUJ SOMANY Land is available to every Zimbabwean who wants it.
JOSEPH MADE The national crop assessment has not been done, so I cannot say anything about harvest expectations....
JOSEPH MADE There has been a decline over the past four to five years because the weather has not been good to u...
JOSEPH MADE The land reform is irreversible, there is no shift in government policy when white farmers apply for...
JOSEPH MADE What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature...
ROBERT BURNS Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Because the vast majority of the world is made up of half-wits, the President asked Mike to come onb...
DAN BROWN Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
ELBERT HUBBARD Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they...
SOCRATES The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in...
ARISTOTLE Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Nature is not modified by us. The Sun ,the moon, rain ,air ,human body, animals,flowers,........are ...
KOWSALAPATHY He's a good athlete. Even though he's made some acrobatic catches that should have been easy, he's m...
WAYNE GRAHAM Who could escape destruction, when he provokes to anger those ,men , by whom the fire was made to co...
GURU NANAK I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god...What fools the...
BENJAMIN R. SMITH Right now everyone is drinking bad wine made of sour grapes and hysteria. Let them drink it, and let...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN So far the detained terrorists do not know them.
MADE MANGKU PASTIKA There are pieces from either a jacket or a bag that were attached to the bodies. The pieces from the...
MADE MANGKU PASTIKA This is exactly like Paddy's Club.
MADE MANGKU PASTIKA We need the participation of all people in Indonesia. The pictures of them (the attackers) are clear...
MADE MANGKU PASTIKA We want to search things that may be overlooked. We need to search and re-search again.
MADE MANGKU PASTIKA Therefore re-education is required to restore the perpetrators rational thinking.
MADE MANGKU PASTIKA From the external appearance, the item could have blown at any time had it contained low explosives.
MADE MANGKU PASTIKA There is evidence that the explosive materials were attached to the body.
MADE MANGKU PASTIKA We have reached a conclusion that they were suicide bombings.
MADE MANGKU PASTIKA We feel very strong, all the evidence is very clear and very significant. Of course this very much d...
MADE MANGKU PASTIKA To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The world has been made by fools that men should live in it
OSCAR WILDE Even though we weren't making hard contact most of the time, we made them work in the field.
BRAD FRANCIS Women are not made for one single man; 'tis for men at large Nature created them.
MARQUIS DE SADE Even though the Clintons started mass incarceration, which my brother is a victim of, things are goi...
TY DOLLA SIGN Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island c...
ARUNDHATI ROY When a battle of wits begins between two people, the smarter of the two will concede knowing that th...
T.R. THRESTON We known ourselves to be made from this earth.We know this earth is made from our bodies.For we see ...
SUSAN GRIFFIN The best foods for your body are organic whole foods. Mostly raw. Just the way nature made them.
LORRIN L. LEE A man whom both the waters and the wind,In that vast tennis-court, have made the ballFor them to pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and ne...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and ne...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.
CHARLES CHURCHILL The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happ...
CHARLES DICKENS Nature made the fields and man the cities.
DAVID TUVILL Nature made him, and then broke the mold.
LUDOVICO ARIOSTO Nature made him, and then broke the mold
ARIOSTO Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom natur...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Men are what their mothers made them.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Why would you go waste your money on a poorly made drink when you can get one that's made well for $...
DOMINIQUE VILLELA Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
RAKUL PREET SINGH Weakness to be wroth with weakness! woman's pleasure, woman's pain-- Nature made them blinder mo...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON It’s the invention of clothes, not nature, that made “private parts” private.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Art is Nature made by Man To Man the interpreter of God
OWEN MEREDITH I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to ...
JOHN MUIR For movie "Human Nature": "I made a pubic wig."
PATRICIA ARQUETTE I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to t...
W.B. YEATS I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I cou...
TANCREDO NEVES And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think ther...
THOMAS MORE Mother Nature created God as a neurological anti-depressant sentiment, but Man tore that God apart i...
ABHIJIT NASKAR One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind j...
CHARLES BRENTON HUGGINS One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor [but] nature is blind...
DR. CHARLES BRENTON HUGGINS Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW "The laws of nature were not made to limit us, but to protect us.
VARTOMIO CAIN Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.
CHARLES DARWIN All men on whom the Higher Nature has stamped the Love of Truth, should especially concern themselve...
ROBERT BROWNING Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]
HORACE QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.
WILLIAM COWPER Nature too unkind; That made no medicine for a troubled mind!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nature has made us frivolous to console us for our miseries
VOLTAIRE All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
MARIE CURIE Canadians have an inherent good nature, and they are used to being made fun of.
COBIE SMULDERS All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
MADAME MARIE CURIE And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) God made them as stubble to our swords.
OLIVER CROMWELL But I'm collecting the story of his life. The real story.' Chronicler made a helpless gesture. 'With...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, among whom they...
BIBLE That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct o...
SAMUEL JOHNSON We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the...
MOHAMMED SAEED AL-SAHAF If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for - someone to whom you want to write anoth...
LISA JAKUB We're proud to be the first mainstream carbonated soft drink brand to address consumer demand for a ...
RANDY GIER Oh, I'm sure I've made my share of (mistakes). I don't think I've made more than my fair share of th...
CARLY FIORINA (This is a declaration of) immunity by Allah and His Apostle towards those of the idolaters with who...
QURAN Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
HONORE DE BALZAC And We have made in it means of subsistence for you and for him for whom you are not the suppliers.
QURAN Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existenc...
LEON BOURGEOIS There was a Republican majority of the Senate, and it tempered the nature of the nominations being m...
SPENCER ABRAHAM Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.
KAROLINA KURKOVA There were a lot of fools at that conference—pompous fools—and pompous fools drive me up the wal...
RICHARD FEYNMAN Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
STEVE MARTIN And surely We have honored the children of Adam, and We carry them in the land and the sea, and We h...
QURAN Let's drink to California, way out by the sea, Where a woman's ass, and a whiskey glass, Made a hors...
ANONYMOUS TOAST And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
BIBLE But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

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Have regard to the end. [Lat., Finem respice (or Respice finem).]
CHILO OF SPARTA (CHILON) Mutually giving and receiving aid, They set each other off, like light and shade.
CHILO OF SPARTA CHILON Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.
CHILO OF SPARTA CHILON Consider the end.
CHILO OF SPARTA CHILON Consider the end.
CHILO OF SPARTA (CHILON) Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
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Where th...
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APOLLONIUS OF TYANA Just as an individual of pre-eminent worth transforms democracy into a monarchy of the best man, eve...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment......
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI The gods, as they are beneficent, if they find anyone who is healthy and whole and unscarred by vice...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA A man can hide all things, excepting twain-- That he is drunk, and that he is in love.
ANTIPHANES OF MACEDONIA if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like ...
ZENO OF CITIUM YHVH Is Love; Satan Is Pride
MONK OF YHVH Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.
THERESE OF LISIEUX You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slave...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS And all shall be well. And all shall be well. And all manner of things shall be exceeding well.
JULIAN OF NORWICH God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.
JULIAN OF NORWICH If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not...
ISAAC OF NINEVEH Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA If you understood him, it would not be God.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by accidents of time...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first scienc...
BION OF SMYRNA The sinews of business (or state).
BION OF SMYRNA Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 He said not Thou shalt not be tempested, th...
JULIANA OF NORWICH Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song ...
JULIANA OF NORWICH Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 I saw full surely in this and in all, that e...
JULIANA OF NORWICH Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 If afore us were laid together all the pain...
JULIANA OF NORWICH This is our Lord's will, ... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large. For if we do not trust ...
JULIANA OF NORWICH Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: A...
JULIANA OF NORWICH Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: THE ELEMENTS OF PRAYER Its ground: God, by whose goodness ...
JULIANA OF NORWICH Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.
MARGARET OF VALOIS