Chiefest Quotes

#1. The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action ... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

John Webster

#2. Humility is, of all graces , the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#3. Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

Hesiod

#4. Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!

Henry David Thoreau

#5. Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts
To courtship and such fair ostents of love
As shall conveniently become you there.

William Shakespeare

#6. Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.

Miguel De Unamuno

#8. humility is one of the chief and the highest graces; one of the most difficult of attainment; one to which our first and chiefest efforts ought to be directed; one that only comes in power, when the fullness of the Spirit makes us partakers of the indwelling Christ, and He lives within us. Second,

Andrew Murray

#9. Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

Thomas Gray

#10. It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Desiderius Erasmus

#11. Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.

John Selden

#12. Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.

Elizabeth I

#13. O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.

Thomas Ken

#14. You're in a bar - grow up. You're drinking poison. You're trying to have sex unsafely with someone you don't know. Is secondhand smoke really the chiefest of your health concerns at this point?

Greg Proops

#15. In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

John Milton

#16. Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.

Plutarch

#17. Sith Nature thus gave her the praise,
To be the chiefest work she wrought,
In faith, methink, some better ways
On your behalf might well be sought,
Than to compare, as ye have done,
To match the candle with the sun.

Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey

#18. Of happiness the chiefest part
IS a wise heart

Sophocles

#19. The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.

Plato

#20. He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear
His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:
And you all know, security
Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

William Shakespeare

#21. I have fourteen black wives an' one white, de chiefest one. I would sure enough shoo her away dis minute if you tek her place in my bed tonight, Mama Sam Moon.
Was sex all these people ever thought about? I guess life was short back then, and nobody had much time to waste on anything else.

J.R. Rain

#22. It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.

William Shakespeare

#23. So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

Izaak Walton

#24. There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common, but one man, keeping the law himself to himself, has the sway, and this is no longer equal.

Euripides

#25. The only pool of young people lies in Saudi Arabia, some of the Middle-East countries, and few African countries. But they are not prepared as Indians are ... we travel well; we are accepted globally very well, and that makes India truly a place to source world's workforce.

Sunil Mittal

#26. If I can relay anything, it's that if someone has a dream, and it isn't the norm of what others are doing around you, it doesn't matter. Reach for it. Go for it - because I'm a shining example of that.

David Hallberg

#27. WHAT A TIRING WAY TO LIVE, WHEN YOUR SELF-WORTH IS CONSTANTLY RELYING ON THE AFFIRMATION AND APPROVAL OF OTHERS.

Darlene Zschech

#28. Should books not have been there, hearsay would have been the best reading material!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#29. Was after all a rather mature blossom, such as could be plucked from the stem only by a vigorous jerk.

Henry James

#30. I ask people who don't fly, "How can you not fly when you live in a time in history when you can fly?"

William Langewiesche