Given Quotes

Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. (Epictetus)
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts. View quote
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. View quote
Robin Williams
Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. View quote
Viktor Frankl
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. View quote
Erma Bombeck
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. View quote
Mel Brooks
I want minimum information given with maximum politeness. View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with. View quote
Robert Frost
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. (Samuel Johnson)
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. View quote
B. F. Skinner
Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself. View quote
Gloria Steinem
You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. View quote
Richard Bach
Nothing is given so willingly as advice. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. View quote
Huey P. Newton
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. View quote
Vera Brittain
It is to be observed that "angling" is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. View quote
Stephen Leacock
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent. View quote
Aldous Huxley
In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book. (Abraham Lincoln)
My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one. View quote
Groucho Marx
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. View quote
John Updike
Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater