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A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money. -- Martial
We cannot both preach and administer financial matters. -- Saint Stephen
I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff. -- John Barton
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. -- James Madison
From the IRS standpoint, 15,000 new employees have to be added just to, you know, administer ObamaCare and look at the tax implications. -- Jeff Fitzgerald
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. -- Andrew Carnegie
Under a decades-old agreement, Palestinian refugee camps are supposed to administer and police themselves. Lebanese troops are technically not allowed to enter them. -- Richard Engel
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. -- Walter Lippmann
All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have. -- Orson Pratt
We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully. -- Bruce Babbitt
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man. -- John Selden
He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief. -- Jose Marti
The Incarnation is the medicine of the soul, undoing the Fall and bringing man to the Tree of Life, and the office of a priest is to administer this medicine in the sacraments. -- Arthur Middleton
You know, you don't need a leader to sort of administer something that's going very well. In fact, in one sense, an overly ambitious person in that circumstance can probably screw it up. -- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet protocol conventions essential to the use and operation of the Internet. -- Jon Postel
Nothing ever gets settled in this town. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer. -- George P. Shultz
Profile has half the publishing and they control and administer the publishing and distribute and own the records, so our group is a 10-point crew. But we got a lot of money off of the shows. -- Jam Master Jay
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it. -- Thomas Sowell
As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of Baptism, so Luther says the same thing about absolution in case of necessity, where no priest is present. -- Martin Chemnitz
If publications want to publish images and stories from a certain person, they should put that person on assignment, cover his or her expenses, make sure they have access to security briefings and experts, someone to administer first aid, etc. -- Lynsey Addario
Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it's money wasted because none of these measures address the weakest link in the security chain: the people who use, administer, operate and account for computer systems that contain protected information. -- Kevin Mitnick
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. -- Queen Elizabeth II
Whether it's possible or not, being a doctor, you take an oath. To care for your patient, not to kill them. You take an oath to do things that are proper in the medical world. Not to administer something outside of a hospital setting that's not even your area. -- Jermaine Jackson
It has worked great good in other communities in the state where it has been honestly and faithfully tried, and I feel confident it will do the same in Pitt, if we faithfully administer the law, and that it will bring gladness and joy into the homes of the people. -- Thomas Jordan Jarvis
TARP is funded by taxpayers, so there are many rules about how that money can and can't be used. The result: GM spends an awful lot of time checking in with the people who administer TARP over everything from hiring to executive compensation and management. For a global company, that adds up to a lot of distraction. -- Edward Whitacre, Jr.
There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre. -- Carl Honore
If a man has wealth, he has to make a choice, because there is the money heaping up. He can keep it together in a bunch, and then leave it for others to administer after he is dead. Or he can get it into action and have fun, while he is still alive. I prefer getting it into action and adapting it to human needs, and making the plan work. -- George Eastman
Charity is only as warm as those who administer it. -- Dorothy Day
How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. -- Adolf Hitler
We have to administer the law whether we like it or no. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common. -- Horace
We can not begin to administer justice without understanding the concept of truth and mercy. -- Paul Bamikole
I contend that those who Agape can only administer mercy and grace."~R. Alan Woods [2012] -- R. Alan Woods
I don't think it's that difficult to administer. I'm sure a sensible solution can be found. -- Alan Curbishley
The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it -- Jean de la Bruyere
To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem. -- Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it. -- Thornton Wilder
So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later. -- Robert B. Laughlin
The blessings of the priesthood are infinitely greater than the one who is asked to administer the gift. -- Neil L. Andersen
NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Where else but in Texas would men set up to administer space? -- James Cameron
Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody. -- Josh Billings
I love the Constitution and government of this land, but I hate the damned rascals that administer the government. -- Brigham Young
Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves. -- Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error. -- Murray Rothbard
I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes. -- Zachary Taylor
There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead. -- Thomas Jefferson
If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility. -- D. A. Carson
When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution. -- Aristotle
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. -- Andrew Carnegie
All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have -- Orson Pratt
Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves. -- John Sterling
The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally. -- Immanuel Kant
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. -- Ernest Hemingway
As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them. -- Pearl S. Buck
It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I arose and spoke substantially as follows: ... I love the government and the constitution of the United States, but I do not love the damned rascals who administer the government. -- Brigham Young
The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is a maxim in our law that a plaintiff must shew that he stands on a fair ground when he calls on a Court of justice to administer relief to him. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to preach the Gospel and administer the sacraments of the Church? -- Frances E. Willard
So as soon as the land was worth something and there was money in the bank, all of a sudden everybody got interested in non-discrimination, in who's really going to administer this stuff. -- Neil Abercrombie
If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...? -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It is an art of no little importance to administer medicines properly: but, it is an art of much greater and more difficult acquisition to know when to suspend or altogether to omit them. -- Philippe Pinel
how often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering. -- Blanche Willis Howard
I believe, assume the power to decide more political than legal issues in nature, the people naturally focus less on the law and more on the lawyers that are chosen really to administer the law. -- Sam Brownback
I've asked Justice Clarence Thomas to administer the Oath of Office, which I'm incredibly honored that he accepted as he's in his 25th year on the Supreme Court and has developed an extraordinary judicial record. -- Mike Pence

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