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"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."

Learning, Business, Wisdom, Execution, Projects

"I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old."

Learning, Being, Mind, Old

"Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting."

Learning, Sense

"At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."

Learning, Age, Judgment, Will, Wit

"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."

Finance, Government, People, Dishonesty

"It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture."

Wisdom, People, Blind, Clothes, Eye

"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."

Justice, God, Obedience, Rebellion

"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price."

Peace, May

"And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief."

Integrity, Man

"He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."

Family, Pleasure, Sorrow

Exlpore more Moderation quotes

"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."

Helen Keller, American Author

Moderation, Civilization, May, Will, World

"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Moderation, God, Appetite, Hair, Worry

"If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

Moderation, End, Repression

"As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Moderation, Heart

"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

Moderation, First, Old

"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Moderation, Man

"Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

Moderation, Selling, Buying, Man, Pleasure

"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

Moderation, Love, Wounds

"Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Moderation, Man, Woman

"The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not."

Publilius Syrus, Roman Writer

Moderation, Miser, Want