Abler Quotes

#1. The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.

William Cowper

#2. The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.

Alexander Henry

#4. There is a steady check in an old civilisation upon the fertility of the abler classes: the improvident and unambitious are those who chiefly keep up the breed. So the race gradually deteriorates, becoming in each successive generation less fit for a high civilisation.

Francis Galton

#5. A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.

Theodore Roosevelt

#6. It did seem unjust that Jane, who was by far the abler of the two, should sacrifice her career for Mark's.

Karen Armstrong

#7. All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#8. What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars.

David Mitchell

#9. [My] pillar of support through life ... I can say conscientiously that I do not know in the world a man of purer integrity, more dispassionate, disinterested, and devoted to genuine Republicanism; nor could I in the whole scope of America and Europe point out an abler head.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#11. Reach down inside yourself, Peabody, and get a grip on reality, however slippery.

J.D. Robb

#12. If we clash with anyone, then it is our own weakness only.

Dada Bhagwan

#13. In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

Beck

#14. Your woe hath been my anguish; yea, I quail
And perish in your perishing unblest.
And I have searched the highths and depths, the scope
Of all our universe, with desperate hope
To find some solace for your wild unrest.

James Thomson

#15. Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.

Walter Scott

#16. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

Stephen King

#17. Queen's knight," he said quietly. "To queen two." It was, he knew, a dangerous opening.

Diana Gabaldon

#18. My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

David Hasselhoff

#19. No matter how much violence or how many bad things we have to go through, I believe that the ultimate solution to our conflicts, both internal and external, lies in returning to our basic or underlying human nature, which is gentle and compassionate.

Dalai Lama XIV

#20. Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.

Marc Newson