An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all. -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. -
Iris Murdoch
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. -
Abraham Lincoln
In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? -
Dwight David Eisenhower
Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig. -
Albert Einstein
Elegy: A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humour, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. (The Devil's Dictionary) -
Ambrose Bierce
Fail to honour people, they fail to honour you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, 'We did this ourselves.' -
Lao Tzu [Lao Tse, Laozi]
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man. -
William Shakespeare
