Only Quotes

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.

I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.