Without Quotes

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Without labor nothing prospers.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

Without tact you can learn nothing.