Quotes of Suffice - somelinesforyou

“ Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ The English Bible, a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. ”

- Lord Macaulay

“ He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ The English Bible — a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. ”

- Thomas B. Macaulay

“ Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice. ”

- John Greenleaf Whittier

“ Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice. ”

- Unknown

“ If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached. ”

- Judith Martin

“ If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult, but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord. ”

- Unknown

“ Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice. ”

- Unknown

“ A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love. ”

- Marcel Proust

“ A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. ”

- Alexander The Great

“ A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God. ”

- Brother Lawrence

“ A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. ”

- Meister Eckhart

“ It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it. ”

- said about the chemist Lavoisier

“ The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time. ”

- A. E. Housman

“ The most valuable and useful of all talents and abilities is that of never using two words or descriptions when one will do or suffice. ”

- Dr. Squid

“ For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice. ”

- Joseph Dunninger

“ Generosity is a part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this Government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it wherever a simple explanation of stupidity will suffice. ”

- Leslie Baron Lever

“ What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean at that very moment was the prey of a terrible upheaval. Every sort of gulf had opened again within him. He also was trembling, like Paris, on the brink of an obscure and formidable revolution… ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena. ”

- Leonhard Euler

“ We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we have something to say, but all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice when we have nothing to say and want desperately to say it. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation. ”

- Albert Camus
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