thing quotes

• However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it most people will think it wrong. (William Maugham) [thing/right/people/willpower]
• I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem. (Arthur Miller) [think/thing/problem]
• If I were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful House; and if I were further asked to name the production next in importance and the thing next to be longed for; I should answer; A beautiful Book. To enjoy good houses and good books in self-respect and decent comfort, seems to me to be the pleasurable end towards which all societies of human beings ought now to struggle. (William Morris) [art/thing/thing/books]
• Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of defeat, and when it comes it turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. (William Morris) [men/fight/thing/defeat]
• Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them. (Andre Maurois) [smile/more/thing/smile]
• The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. (Benjamin Franklin) [thing/give/forgiveness/opponent]
• Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. (Benjamin Franklin) [remember/right/thing/right]
• The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance. (Benjamin Franklin) [thing/more/education/ignorance]
• The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. (Charles Dickens) [construction/creation/thing/thing]
• "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. (Theodore Roosevelt) [moment/decision/thing/right]
• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. (Albert Einstein) [/thing]
• Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. (Ernest Hemingway) [happiness/people/thing]
• When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing -- deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different. (John Galsworthy) [pity/thing/power/life]
• Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons. (Thomas Hardy) [thing]
• Every thing possible to be believed is an image of truth. (William Blake) [thing/truth]
• Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. (Abraham Lincoln) [mind/more/thing]
• If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. (Dale Carnegie) [thing]
• Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear. (Dale Carnegie) [thing/fear/fear]
• The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love. (Henry Miller) [thing/love/thing/give]
• It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. (Winston Churchill) [thing/right]
• Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. (Winston Churchill) [attitude/thing]
• The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least i can dream. (Marilyn Monroe) [thing]
• A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes. (Mark Twain) [thing/form]
• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. (Henry Ford) [thing/life/mind]
• Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. (Henry Ford) [mistake/thing]
• Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long. (Richard Bach) [chance/thing/thing/right]
• I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron. (Evita Peron) [thing/nerves/love/people]
• That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [nature/thing/power]
• Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us. (Henry Fielding) [conscience/thing]
• There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. (Robert Burns) [thing]
• Love is a wonderful, terrible thing. (William Shakespeare) [love/thing]

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