Part Quotes

"Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties."
-Henry David Thoreau

"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one part of the citizens to give to the other."
-Voltaire

"You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
-Mark Twain

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
-Mark Twain

"Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty."
-Plato

"I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat."
-Plato

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
-Plato

"To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can."
-Carl Jung

"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real."
-George Bernard Shaw

"I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life;and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy."
-Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you're afraid to try."
-Evelyn Cunningham

"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me."
-William Shakespeare

"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
-William Shakespeare

"The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life."
-William Shakespeare

"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'"
-Ann Landers

"Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry."
-Stephen Hawking

"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream."
-Vincent van Gogh

"Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself."
-Michel de Montaigne

"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."
-Alfred North Whitehead

"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."
-Franklin P. Adams

"The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary."
-Franklin P. Adams

"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."
-Samuel Butler

"I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back."
-Erica Jong

"Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is 'What do you like?' Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are."
-John Ruskin