Above Quotes

Piety required us to honour truth above our friends. (Aristotle)
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. View quote
Joseph Addison
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him, either. View quote
Sophocles
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bring home a wife to your house when you are of the right age, while you are not far short of thirty years nor much above; this is the right age for marriage. View quote
Hesiod
Above all things, reverence yourself. View quote
Pythagoras
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. View quote
Immanuel Kant
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things which lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. View quote
Steven Weinberg
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. View quote
Washington Irving
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. (Leon Trotsky)
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. View quote
Donald Knuth
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. View quote
Nora Ephron
Above our life we love a steadfast friend. View quote
Christopher Marlowe
The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. View quote
John Steinbeck
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion. View quote
Julius Caesar
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. View quote
J. R. R. Tolkien
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself. (Pythagoras)
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions. View quote
Livy
Human nature is above all things lazy. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else. View quote
Ayrton Senna
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. View quote
Andrew Jackson
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