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That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running shortnot of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation. — Lewis Carroll
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
— Adam Smith
Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.
— Ameen Rihani
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
— Agnes Repplier
We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.
— Eric Hoffer
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
— Kingsley Amis
He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.
— Henry David Thoreau
The rain it raineth on the justAnd also on the unjust fella;
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust hath the just's umbrella. — Charles Bowen
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
— John Ruskin
There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Ha!" cried Dr John contemptuously. "Magic! That is chiefly used for killing Frenchmen, is it not?
— Susanna Clarke
The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness and facility. Francis Bacon More
— J.D. Robb
Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
— Nelson A. Miles
All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.
— H.L. Mencken
We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.
— John Dewey
Nor myrtlewhich means chiefly love: and love
Is something awful which one dare not touch
So early o' mornings. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
But we are engaged in a bitter and eternal war with small things; chiefly with microbes and with collar studs.
— G.K. Chesterton
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.
— Francis Lockier
Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish to drink beer, or did they learn from the Irish how to drink whiskey?
— Maria Edgeworth
He did have his beliefs, chiefly in his own genius.
— T. J. Stiles
The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The gist of the Twist is chiefly in the hips
— Chubby Checker
Without thinking at all deeply about anything, he was chiefly aware of the need to be back in a company of men, fighting something.
— Dorothy Dunnett
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
— Henry David Thoreau
The new era differs from the old chiefly in that the lash begins to imagine itself possessed of genius.
— Karl Marx
I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.
— Leon Wieseltier
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
— Thomas Hardy
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Chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands, so why to look for excuses around.
— Anonymous
Southampton Row, however, is chiefly remarkable nowadays for the fact that you will always find a man there trying to sell a tortoise to a tailor.
— Virginia Woolf
On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
— Georg Brandes
The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.
— Carl G. Fisher
No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
— John Irving
We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.
— Henry David Thoreau
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
— E.F. Schumacher
At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
— John Buchanan Robinson
Hence it is predicated chiefly of the virtuous; then of the pleasant; and lastly of the useful.
— Thomas Aquinas
Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.
— H.L. Mencken
Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.
— Friedrich August Von Hayek
I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.
— Thomas Jefferson
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To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.
— Elizabeth Blackwell
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
for Roberts talks chiefly of God's love and of the great joy of living in obedience to that love.
— Evan Roberts
A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
— Albert Einstein
they knew also that the Communist underground was directed from Moscow and served chiefly as an espionage source for the Russians.*
— William L. Shirer
Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
— John Tillotson
'On earth the living have much to bear;' the difference is chiefly in the manner of bearing, and my manner of bearing is far from being the best.
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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— Charles Dickens
A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.
— Alexander Smith
In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.
— Bertrand Russell
Man is to be trained chiefly by studying and by knowing man.
— William E. Gladstone
OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.
— Ambrose Bierce
It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.
— Woodrow Wilson
As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.
— Samuel Johnson
A life merely of pleasure, or chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and worthless life.
— Theodore W. Parker
Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.
— Charles Dickens
My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
— John Maynard Keynes
Unconditional love is furnished by many 4 legged creatures, but chiefly by human kinds best friend DOG!
— Ladee Basset
I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.
— Ellen Glasgow
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.
— Zelda Fitzgerald
Only a sweet and virtuous soul,Like season'd timbered, never gives;
But though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives. — George Herbert
He who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.
— Mary Astell
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
— Bertrand Russell
It is the cringer to his equal that is chiefly seen bold to his God.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
It is a great mistake to think that God is chiefly concerned with our being religious.
— William Temple
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
— Ambrose Bierce
Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
— Jonathan Edwards
War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.
— Percival Lowell
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
— Jonathan Edwards
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Women seemed to him to be in possession of all kinds of undesirable properties, chiefly madness.
— Kate Atkinson
What makes capitalism succeed is not chiefly its structure of incentives but its use of knowledge and experience.
— George Gilder
A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
— Erica Jong
needed chiefly for the defence of the homeland
— Geoffrey Bennett
But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.
— Beilby Porteus
