Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josh Billings

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

Brandon Sanderson

Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?

Francis Bacon

I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.

Richard Whately

The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.

William Morris

The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?

Samuel Smiles

He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.

Richard Ford

Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

Robin Leach

The system is wrong where it rewards the lack of interest in work with money, so you don't have to work.

Walter Lippmann

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

William Hazlitt

Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

Lord Acton

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

John Betjeman

Lord, reserve for me a crown, And do not let my shares go down.

Kyan Douglas

Our Quakers love us. We're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.

Joseph Joubert

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

Barry Bonds

I'm clean, I've always been clean.

Donald Trump

Markets always change, and as soon as there's downturn, cleanliness becomes a major value.

Francis Bacon

All will come out in the washing.