"What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?"

-- Edmund Waller

#Men Quotes #Promise Quotes #Use Quotes

“Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.”
“Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves, There is a nobleness of mind that heals Wounds beyond salves.”

Source : William Cartwright, Gwynne Blakemore Evans (1951). “Plays and Poems”
“I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“At a time of record energy prices, when we are trying to break the very addiction the president talked about in his speech, it does not make any sense to cut funding for energy efficiency programs and research.”
“An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.”

Source : Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.70
“Men seem more bound to the wheel of success than women do. That women are trained to get satisfaction from affiliation rather thanachievement has tended to keep them from great achievement. But it has also freed them from unreasonable expectations about the satisfactions that professional achievement brings.”

Source : Phyllis Rose (1991). “Never Say Goodbye: Essays”, Nan A. Talese
“No government which governs by the use of force can survive except by force. There is no going back because force begets force and the perpetrators of crimes live in fear that they might become victims in their turn.”

Source : Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (2001). “The Road to Freedom: A Collection of Speeches, Pastoral Letters, and Articles from 1997-2001”
“The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?”

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