Logo
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to la

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. – William Howard Taft

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Nature
category

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. – Alan Kay

Category:
Nature

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Nature

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. – James Whitcomb Riley

Category:
Nature

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. – Camille Paglia

Category:
Nature

Random Quotes

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show. – Jacob Bronowski

Category:
Winning, Winners

I personally believe that theres going to be a good case for the government preserving some type of guarantee to make sure that people have the ability to borrow to finance a house even in a very damaging recession. I think theres going to be a good case for that. – Timothy Geithner

Category:
finance

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. – Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951

Category:
Graduation

What I miss today more than anything else – I dont go to church as much anymore – but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing. – Ernest Gaines

Category:
Religion