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3284 quotesTo accept a favor is to forfeit liberty.
Favors
Laber
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For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.
Elegance
Christian Lacroix
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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.
Children
Dr. Jess Lair
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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.
Goals
Ricki Lake
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Poetry and Poets
Alphonse De Lamartine
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My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
Contentment
Charles Lamb
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Journalism and Journalists
Charles Lamb
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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.
Change
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.
Poverty and The Poor
Melville D. Landon
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
Quarrels
Walter Savage Landor
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I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Death and Dying
Walter Savage Landor
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He used statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts; for support rather than illumination.
Statistics
Andrew Lang
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Comfort
Lao-Tzu
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
Potential
Lao-Tzu
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An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
Optimism
Ring Lardner
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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.
Wisdom
Doug Larson
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Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.
Debate
Christopher Lasch
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The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
Media
Christopher Lasch
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I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot I know I can beat him.
Competition
Luther Lassiter
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Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the timid.
Fortune
Latin Proverb
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Stupidity is a force unto itself.
Stupidity
Latin Proverb
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Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.
Wrong
Latin Proverb
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He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
Forgiveness
Lauter
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Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction.
Sleep
Isidore Ducasse, Comte De Lautreamont
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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
Action
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun