Abridge Quotes

#1. Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

Horace

#2. Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.

Lyman Trumbull

#3. He wrote because he liked to write; he did not abridge, because he cared not to abridge. He sat down, he took pen and paper, because he loved Lucy and had much to say to her; because he was faithful and thoughtful, because he was tender and true.

Charlotte Bronte

#4. If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be To abridge, expand, or otherwise alter or cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one's own writings in translation.

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. I will not abridge my freedoms so as not to offend savages, freedom of speech is under violent assault here.

Pamela Geller

#6. Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.

Alexander Hamilton

#7. In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace, called a mall, we should not abridge that right.

Sol Wachtler

#8. Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe.

Carl Jung

#9. There is no better revenge than a great success.

Debasish Mridha

#10. I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.

David LaChapelle

#11. I've explored the worship side, the pop side, and the film scoring side of me.

Michael W. Smith

#12. Our brains renew themselves throughout life to an extent previously thought not possible.

Michael S. Gazzaniga

#13. I haven't dated Clancy - God help me if I do - but he's tipping my all-men-are-jackasses theory completely over the edge of the scale. To add insult to injury, he looks like the damn cover of a romance novel. I hate those covers.

N.L. Gervasio

#14. Four can be as stupid as ten. No need to crowd the room.

Suzanne Collins

#15. I've always had service-industry jobs, because those were the easiest to quit or take time off from.

Wesley Schultz

#16. LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE UNHAPPY ... SO LAUGH INSANELY, KISS SOFTLY, AND MAKE LOVE PASSIONATELY ...

Muffin

#17. I like the fact that there is challenge.

Keren Ann