30 Quotations with Expedient.
- 1. Ambrose Bierce: APOSTATE, n. A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find t ...
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the great ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: INEXPEDIENT, adj. Not calculated to advance one's interests.
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: REFUGE, n. Anything assuring protection to one in peril. Moses and Joshua provid ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: SABBATH, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the wo ...
- 6. Publilius Syrus: It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
- 7. Aldo Leopold: Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as ...
- 8. George Bernard Shaw: Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing somet ...
- 9. Katharine Butler Hathaway: It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and ...
- 10. Adam Smith: The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of whic ...
- 11. Friedrich Nietzsche: I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the ...
- 12. Declaration of Indian Purpose: A treaty, in the minds of our people, is an eternal word. Events often make it s ...
- 13. Horace: A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
- 14. Joseph Conrad: An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an exped ...
- 15. James Russell Lowell: Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, of ...
- 16. Henry Ward Beecher: Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
- 17. Henry David Thoreau: Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and al ...
- 18. Sigmund Freud: I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot ...
- 19. Simone de Beauvoir: Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.
- 20. Benjamin Disraeli: Protection is not a principle but an expedient.
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