Famous Quotes
76 Quotations with Retain.
- 1. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas i ...
- 2. Francois de La Rochefoucauld: Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that hap ...
- 3. William J.H. Boetcker: That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by d ...
- 4. Henry David Thoreau: It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if th ...
- 5. Cicero: When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you s ...
- 6. Thomas Fuller: Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our though ...
- 7. Josiah Gilbert Holland: Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficul ...
- 8. William James: No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good ...
- 9. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The test of a first-fate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas i ...
- 10. Ambrose Bierce: LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bo ...
- 11. Ambrose Bierce: LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermong ...
- 12. Samuel Johnson: Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthin ...
- 13. Pliny the Younger: An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
- 14. George Santayana: Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change i ...
- 15. Erich Fromm: Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition ...
- 16. Abraham Lincoln: Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under ...
- 17. Leonardo da Vinci: Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
- 18. Otto von Bismarck: To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
- 19. Thomas Jefferson: The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is ...
- 20. Germaine Greer: A woman might claim to retain some of the child's faculties, although very limit ...