Only Quotes

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.