Chiefly Quotes

The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.