measure quotes

• Often have I sighed to measure
  By myself a lonely pleasure,
  Sighed to think, I read a book
  Only read, perhaps, by me. (William Wordsworth) [measure/pleasure/think]
• Time is the measure of business. (Francis Bacon) [time/measure/business]
• Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors. (Jean Baudrillard) [cowardice/courage/measure/love]
• The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. (Jeremy Bentham) [truth/happiness/measure/right]
• The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure. (William Blake) [wisdom/measure]
• The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [measure/master/men/opinion]
• The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [measure/leader/opinion]
• Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [measure/art]
• No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it. (Oliver Goldsmith) [fool/measure]
• Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. (Germaine Greer) [measure]
• Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things, the most likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which come within our observation must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure. (Stephen Hales) [measure/insight/nature/creation]
• Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. (Dag Hammarskjold) [measure/mountain/top/willpower]
• Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. (Thomas Hardy) [poetry/measure/nature/measure]
• As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it. (Vaclav Havel) [source/measure/human/control]
• We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all. (William Hazlitt) [measure/order]
• Action is the real measure of intelligence. (Napoleon Hill) [action/measure/intelligence]
• Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. (Ann Landers) [mind/measure]
• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Ann Landers) [measure]
• God is a concept by which we measure our pain. (John Lennon) [god/measure/pain]
• The idol is the measure of the worshipper. (James Lowell) [measure]
• The true measure of life is not length, but honesty. (John Lyly) [measure/life/honesty]
• The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. ( Plutarch) [measure/misfortune]
• We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind. (John Ruskin) [being/darkness/measure/stability]
• It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess. ( Seneca) [mind/greatness/measure]
• Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days. (Gloria Steinem) [measure/class/class/future]
• Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature --if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you --know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse. (Henry David Thoreau) [measure/health/morning/nature]
• If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. (Henry David Thoreau) [men/measure/state/blood]
• We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile! (Henry David Thoreau) [measure/understanding]
• Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us. (Steven Tyler) [life/measure/sorrow]
• We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments. (Oscar Wilde) [prison/sorrow/measure/time]
• Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community. (James Woods) [evil/measure/people]

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