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Chiefs are like diapers, always on your ass and full of...

Chiefs are like diapers, always on your ass and full of shit.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about fire brigade

This comparative indifference to clearness and...

This comparative indifference to clearness and consistency of thought is visible even in that chief object of our national concern, education.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about indifference, worry, education, thinking

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about creation, unforeseen, poetry, things

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most...

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Quote by Franklin P. Adams about nation, man, people

The chief ingredients in the composition of those...

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Quote by Joseph Addison about good, good luck, praise, common sense, sense, nature, truth

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my...

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about air, water

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are...

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes

The ADMIRAL, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.

Quote by William Falconer about ability, destiny, being

The excellence of a road consists chiefly in its being protected from the reigning winds, and the swell of the sea; in having a good anchoring-ground, and being at a competent distance from the shore.

Quote by William Falconer about being, good, good luck

Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.

Quote by John Thomas Flynn about mistake, enemies, americans, country, people

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer...

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about country, world

Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about nation

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is...

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about proudness, vanity, secret, being

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase...

There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL.

Quote by Lynn Lavner about sex, numbers

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

Quote by Margaret Oliphant about destiny, quality, virtue, art, magic, life

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread...

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson about society, boredom, common sense, sense

I was doing things I was being patted on the back for. I...

I was doing things I was being patted on the back for. I was chief economist. I was doing things that Robert McNamara liked and so on

Quote by John Perkins about opinion, things, being

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief...

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind not the fiend or the sadist.

Quote by Erich Fromm about power, danger, man

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief...

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Quote by André Breton about literature, art, writing, nature

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many...

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Quote by Alfred Adler about life, danger

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