[ rote Quotes ]



Showing search results for Rote Quotes - 36 quotes about rote - Dictionary Quotes
36 quotes

A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
Management
Dean Acheson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 981 votes

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
Colleges and Universities
Allan Bloom

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 962 votes

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?
Punishment
Jerry Brown

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 820 votes

Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.
Adversity
Mario Burata

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 769 votes

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.
Suspicion
Robert Burns

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 794 votes

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Civilization
Thomas Carlyle

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 808 votes

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Books - Reading
Lord Chesterfield

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 1090 votes

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
Masses
Marcus T. Cicero

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

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Parents and Parenting
Quentin Crisp

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 795 votes

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Friends and Friendship
Czech Proverb

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 789 votes

Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it.
Fear
Leonardo Da Vinci

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 691 votes

Protection is not a principle but an expedient.
Trade
Benjamin Disraeli

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 626 votes

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
Government
John Foster Dulles

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 752 votes

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
Self-reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Fathers
Sigmund Freud

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 742 votes

If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.
President
Vaclav Havel

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 698 votes

A man without a vote is man without protection.
Government
Lyndon B. Johnson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 681 votes

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
Arts and Artists
Samuel Johnson

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 610 votes

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Understanding
Lao-Tzu

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

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Silence
Abraham Lincoln

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 652 votes

Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty & love of country.
Uncategorised
James Madison

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 655 votes

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Automobiles
Marshall Mcluhan

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 641 votes

The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Ideas
Sir Peter Medawar

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 698 votes

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
Law and Lawyers
Thomas Moore

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 630 votes

Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
Age and Aging
Jeanne Moreau

Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote  | 723 votes
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun