Account Quotes

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account. (Euripides)
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. View quote
George Eliot
I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home. View quote
William Hazlitt
Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes. View quote
George Henry Lewes
The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena. View quote
William Whewell
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. View quote
Bertrand Russell
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. View quote
Isaac Asimov
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another. (E. B. White)
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. View quote
Douglas Adams
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. View quote
Max Beerbohm
Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
I don't believe in luck, Sam. Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her,” he said, "but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go Be our joys three-parts pain Strive, and hold cheap the strain Learn, nor account the pang dare, never grudge the throe. View quote
Robert Browning
To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart! View quote
Frances Burney
If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour. (Simon Conway Morris)
It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account. View quote
Douglas Hofstadter
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world. View quote
Arthur Helps
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Money doesn't mean anything to me. I've made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy lie and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important. View quote
Keanu Reeves