Aid Quotes

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene. (Edmund Waller)
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. View quote
Edmund Burke
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. View quote
Pythagoras
Labour in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor. View quote
Daniel Webster
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. View quote
William Ellery Channing
We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves. View quote
John Venn
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. View quote
Marie Curie
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this greatest science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
I have come not to make war on the Italians, but to aid the Italians against Rome. View quote
Hannibal
It's not when you realize that nothing can help you religion, pride, anything it's when you realize that you don't need any aid. View quote
William Faulkner
Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. (Evita Peron)
Babylon, Learned and wise, hath perished utterly, Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh That would lament her. View quote
William Wordsworth
This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation. View quote
Will Rogers
I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. View quote
Euripides
Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or triple our responsibility to remove them from power? View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid. View quote
Dorothea Brande
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision. View quote
Joseph Joubert
That saints will aid if men will call For the blue sky bends over all. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but - more frequently than not - struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God. View quote
Martin Luther
Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who receive some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it. [citation needed]. View quote
Jack Kemp
Take some time to learn first aid and CPR. It saves lives, and it works. (Bobby Sherman)
Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq. View quote
Christine Gregoire
Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people. View quote
Lee H. Hamilton
Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered. View quote
Lee H. Hamilton
It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the male has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction. View quote
Valerie Solanas