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Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even though it was a six album deal, they saw quite early on that I wasn't enjoying it as I should be. I didn't feel there was anything behind it.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Only the educated are free.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

The only time I think I've ever gotten sick of playing Guns and Roses songs really was during - after having played them in Guns and Roses, and then in Snakepit, and then playing 'It's So Easy' and 'Brownstone' in Velvet Revolver.

As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.