Flourishes Quotes

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall, that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.

Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

The theory of permanent Muslim-Christian enmity, though it flourishes in the caves of Tora Bora and parts of the American academy, was long ago exploded by the historians.

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.