Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.

He who talks much cannot talk well.

A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.

The blush is beautiful but it is sometimes convenient.

Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.

Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.

She didn't leave any written instructions. She has verbally expressed her wishes to me and other people.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

He who advises you to be reserved to your friends wishes to betray you without witnesses.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

English policy may not yet have made the definite decision to attack us; but it doubtless wishes, by all and every means, even the most extreme, to hinder every further expansion of German international influence and of German maritime power.

Eddie and I are overwhelmed by the amount of lovely well wishes. We are blessed and.... I'm Mrs. Cibrian!

Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.

So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower.

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some quality one appropriates for oneself and wishes to reproduce.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.

If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.