[ general Quotes ]



Showing search results for General Quotes - 86 quotes about general - Dictionary Quotes
86 quotes

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.
Capitalism
Abraham Lincoln

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 680 votes

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Walter Lippmann

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 1157 votes

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Generals
Douglas Macarthur

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 624 votes

We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
Government
Thomas B. Macaulay

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 650 votes

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
Judgment and Judges
Niccolo Machiavelli

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 646 votes

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Humankind
Niccolo Machiavelli

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 701 votes

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
Freedom
Joseph De Maistre

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 714 votes

The more the world is specialized the more it will be run by generalists.
Experts
Marcel Masse

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 627 votes

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.
Change
Susanna Moodie

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 562 votes

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
Temptation
Margaret Oliphant

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 671 votes

Time is generally the best doctor.
Doctors
Ovid

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 603 votes

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
Fathers
William Penn

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 766 votes

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
Reputation
Pliny The Elder

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 751 votes

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
Charm
Marcel Proust

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 782 votes

The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.
Habit
Marcel Proust

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 650 votes

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
Pride
John Ruskin

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 600 votes

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
Life and Living
Arthur Schopenhauer

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 545 votes

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Ideas
Arthur Schopenhauer

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 529 votes

A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Critics and Criticism
William Shenstone

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 723 votes

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
Action
Samuel Smiles

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 542 votes

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
Prayer
Socrates

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 654 votes

Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Spanish Proverb

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 695 votes

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
Association
Philip Dormer Stanhope

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 683 votes

Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
Behavior
Henry David Thoreau

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 678 votes

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Battles
Barbara Tuchman

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 603 votes
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun