Weigh Quotes

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends. (Plutarch)
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. View quote
Francis Bacon
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better. View quote
William Wycherley
A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled. View quote
William Butler Yeats
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems. View quote
William Shakespeare
The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living. View quote
Karl Marx
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. View quote
Immanuel Kant
No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body. (Mehmet Oz)
A man's allowed to make lots of small mistakes, and there's nothing wrong with that. But if the mistakes are big ones and they weigh him down, his only solution is to stop taking himself seriously. It's the only way to avoid suffering - suffering, prolonged, can be fatal. View quote
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it! View quote
Sophia Bush
Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean. View quote
Deborah Bull
Because finally, "the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience” is held by the same tenure with all his other rights. If we recur to its origin, it is equally the gift of nature; if we weigh its importance, it cannot be less dear to us; if we consider "the declaration of those rights which pertain to the good people of Virginia as the basis and foundation of government,” it is enumerated with equal solemnity, or rather studied emphasis. View quote
James Madison
Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
There's a huge amount of work that goes into placating a network in regular television. It's literally 70% or 80% of your workload, is showing them the material, getting their notes and presenting it to them and making sure they weigh in. It's a huge amount of work. View quote
Louis C.K.
The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape. View quote
Thornton Wilder
But my motivation was more a matter of wanting to create order - to keep track of things. All those boxes full of photographs and sketches weigh you down, because they have something unfinished, incomplete, about them. So it's better to present the usable material in an orderly fashion and throw the other stuff away. That's how the Atlas came to be, and I exhibited it a few times. View quote
Gerhard Richter
The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels. (Fernando Pessoa)
The notion of nothingness is not characteristic of laboring humanity: those who toil have neither time nor inclination to weigh their dust; they resign themselves to the difficulties or the doltishness of fate; they hope: hope is a slave's virtue. View quote
Emil Cioran
O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good. View quote
Joseph Addison
Why can't a man stand alone? Must he be burdened by all that he's taught to consider his own? His skin and his station, his kin and his crown, his flag and his nation They just weigh him down. View quote
Elvis Costello
I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences. View quote
David Draiman