Enervate Quotes

#1. Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.

Michel De Montaigne

#2. Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us

Patrick Pearse

#3. Truth, and the freedom to seek it, are not luxury-products which enervate a people and unfit them for the struggle of life. They belong to life, they are life's daily bread.

Thomas Mann

#4. Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.

Julius Caesar

#5. The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#6. We burn daylight.

William Shakespeare

#7. But then there's loneliness. However you might philosophise about it, loneliness is a terrible thing, my dear fellow ... Although in reality, of course, it's absolutely of no importance!

Anton Chekhov

#8. In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.

Wilfred Burchett

#9. The highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish to imbibe,' he said. 'Can I receive that pure liquid into an impure vessel and judge of its purity? Only by the inner purification of myself can I retain in some degree of purity the liquid I receive.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. When I'm at my best, I'm wearing a 6. When you see yourself pick out the 6 ... you want to wear the tags on the outside of your clothes.

Kirstie Alley