Civilizer Quotes

#1. She [Comedy] it is who proposes the correcting of pretentiousness, of inflation, of dulness, and of the vestiges of rawness and grossness to be found among us. She is the ultimate civilizer, the polisher, a sweet cook.

George Meredith

#2. It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.

Henry Charles Carey

#3. Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

Robinson Jeffers

#4. Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#5. That uncivilized heathen nations should first be civilized, and then Christianized, is a sentiment of the past. Now it is coming more and more to be acknowledged, that the Bible is the great civilizer of the nations.

Stephen Return Riggs

#6. Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#7. Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Commerce is the great civilizer.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#9. How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue! It makes him very proud To be a little cloud.

A.A. Milne

#10. Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay.

Art Rooney

#11. Look what a little vain dust we are!

Joseph Addison

#12. A faint endeavor ends in a sure defeat.

Hannah More

#13. We always come back to our first love.

Etienne Aigner

#14. If you don't cut that out, I don't bring the girl back here to see you. No more girl! You hear me? I'm tired. NO MORE GIRL!

Penelope Ward

#15. Music has always been the greatest expression of mortal philosophy," continued Lucky. "The path to enlightenment is found in the lyrics of Spinal Tap.

A. Lee Martinez

#16. Sticks and stones may break me, but the words you said just tore my heart in two.

Tracy Lawrence

#17. They shut me up in Prose - / As when a little Girl / They put me in the Closet - / Because they liked me "still" -

Emily Dickinson

#18. I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

Steven Spielberg

#19. You remind me of Hubert Humphrey. You talk too much

Ernest Hollings

#20. I grew up in the inner city of Chicago, and then I moved to Robbins, and it kind of raised me. When I was in college, I actually had them change the starting lineup to say 'from Robbins, Illinois' instead of 'Chicago, Illinois.'

Dwyane Wade

#21. My biggest thing is to improve my all-around game. If you don't win, something's wrong. Winning takes care of everything, so our biggest thing is winning.

Derrick Rose