Only Quotes

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.

I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.