(1669 quotes found)
“The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.”
John Lyly
“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.”
George Eliot
“Action is the real measure of intelligence.”
Napoleon Hill
“I was going to thrash them within an inch of their lives, but I didn't have a tape measure”
Groucho Marx
“God is a concept by which we measure our pain”
John Lennon
“If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.”
Robert South
“We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.”
Oscar Wilde
“Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.”
Woody Allen
“There is no better measure of a person than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose”
Wilma Askinas
“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.”
Richard Bach