(1861 quotes found)
“There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man.”
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
“That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time”
Charles Caleb Colton
“Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs.”
Tori Amos
“It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”
Charles Baudelaire
“So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community”
William Blackstone
“He has the most who is most content with the least”
Diogenes
“Your reader is at least as bright as you are”
William Maxwell
“All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious; and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever; much less, of any which is supported by no appearance of probability”
David Hume
“Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.”
Sir Walter Scott
“I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.”
Dag Hammarskjold