Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

Diogenes

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

Ben Jonson

I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

Horace

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

Nicolas Chamfort

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

Eric Hoffer

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

Thomas Paine

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

D. James

The overall solution is aimed at fast-moving products. We will tune the system for others later, but the initial benefits case had been made on inventory savings, and savings in the distribution centers on products that we order often.

Conor Oberst

I'll never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat the undocumented says a great deal about us as a people and whether or not we'll continue to fulfill the fundamental American promise of equality and opportunity for all.

Bill Bryson

Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

Ashton Kutcher

I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

Jonathan Zittrain

The ability to make new work from old work - especially if that new work is different enough that it doesn't dent the market for the old work - is something that benefits all creators, since so few can claim not to have a giant or 10 supporting them underneath.

Carol Cox

The American people who have it in their power to elect presidents have decided they don't want to hear anything about any cuts, any restrictions on growth, any changes in benefits in popular programs. And if you tell them those things, they're not going to hire you as president,

David Souter

The applicability of the Establishment Clause to public funding of benefits to religious schools was settled in Everson v. Board of Ed. of Ewing, which inaugurated the modern era of establishment doctrine.

Chris Rodgers

The announcement by HMRC shows that filing of financial reports in XBRL is moving from promise to reality in the UK. This will bring benefits of efficiency and cost savings in due course to investors, companies and regulators alike. We congratulate the Revenue on the hard work they have done to establish their XBRL service for Corporation Tax.

Joe Brennan

We have a major, major philosophical problem with state government coming into a private business and telling them what kind of benefits they must pay their employees.

Benjamin Franklin

Little rogues easily become great ones.

Alexander Pope

Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

Douglas William Jerrold

Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.

Jessamyn West

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

Jean de La Fontaine

Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball.

Homer

One rogue leads another.

Jonathan Swift

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The rogue has everywhere the advantage.