Facebook share Tweet This Email this
Welcome to these Constitution Quotes from my large collection of Love Quotes and Sayings. Please enjoy these Quotes about Constitution and Love.
Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer.
He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Related topics: Government Political
We the people are the rightful masters
of both Congress and the courts,
not to overthrow the Constitution
but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
- Abraham Lincoln
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution.
That must be maintained, for it is
the only safeguard of our liberties.
- Abraham Lincoln
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full.
Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem,
am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
- Henry David Thoreau
Please sign-up for my free Daily Inspiration email. Thank you, Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nature and human life are as various
as our several constitutions.
Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
- Henry David Thoreau
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions,
but laws and institutions must go hand in hand
with the progress of the human mind.
As that becomes more developed, more enlightened,
as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered
and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances,
institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.
- Thomas Jefferson [inscribed in the Jefferson Memorial]
This country, with its institutions,
belongs to the people who inhabit it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government,
they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it,
or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
- Abraham Lincoln
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man
are those of bearing and forbearing.
- Epictetus
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on
does not constitute so strong an attachment
as that from which they draw their gains.
- Thomas Jefferson
Books constitute capital.
A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.
It is not, then, an article of mere consumption
but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men,
setting out in life, it is their only capital.
- Thomas Jefferson
Not what we have,
but what we enjoy,
constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
What we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
- Epicurus
We should meet abuse by forbearance.
Human nature is so constituted that
if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse,
the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere
to get American citizens to obey
the orders of constituted courts.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
No partner in a love relationship...
should feel that he has to give up
an essential part of himself to make it viable.
- May Sarton
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy
is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet,
alone with the heavens, nature and God.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god;
it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery
in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Brooks Adams
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
- Chinese proverb
You should never be content with so little,
when you can reach out for something big.
- Charles L. Allen
(This quote is about making a big difference
in the world - not about greed)
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Maybe I could have loved you better.
Maybe you should have loved me more.
Maybe our hearts were just next in line.
Maybe everything breaks sometime.
- Jewel
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
I surrender to life as it is, not as it should be.
- Richard Carlson
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities
but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything.
It should be of the hill. Belonging to it.
Hill and house should live together
each the happier for the other.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I've learned that you should always
leave loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.
- Anonymous
Consider being more acceptive of your partner's behaviors.
It is unlikely that they are intentionally aggravating you.
Almost always, they are just doing what they think they should do.
Try setting aside your own rules for how they should behave,
and adopt a live-and-let-live attitude.
Your relationship will become stronger and happier if you do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself,
to keep his friends in countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
We may have our private opinions
but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
I think, at a child's birth,
if a mother could ask a fairy godmother
to endow it with the most useful gift,
that gift should be curiosity.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
People who say it cannot be done should not
interrupt those who are doing it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Many people excuse their own faults
but judge other persons harshly.
We should reverse this attitude
by excusing others' shortcomings
and by harshly examining our own.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge of what is, does not open
the door directly to what should be.
- Albert Einstein
If the stars should appear
but one night every thousand years
how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
We should not moor a ship with one anchor,
or our life with one hope.
- Epictetus
If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious,
one should preserve it.
- Anais Nin
There is NOTHING that I "must",
"have to", or "should" do today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
NO ONE has been granted the authority to tell me
how my life should be lived.
I answer only to myself and to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thank you for visiting: Constitution Quotes and Sayings - Quotes about Constitution and Love.
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.