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Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation. -- Jonathan Swift
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. -- Elias Canetti
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot. -- Anthony Wayne
The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business. -- Andrew Forrest
If you went to Harvard Medical School, chances are you'll be a doctor at some place. There's a career trajectory. Acting, there's nothing. It's constantly trying to procure jobs - it's very disconcerting. -- Jesse Eisenberg
I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation. -- Dolley Madison
We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them. -- Meriwether Lewis
The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address. -- Mercy Otis Warren
If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it. -- David Ricardo
Despite the constant clamor for attention from the modern world, I do believe we need to procure a psychological space for ourselves. I apparently know some people who try to achieve this by logging off or going without their Twitter or Facebook for a limited period. -- Alan Moore
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share. -- Virginia Woolf
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America. -- John James Audubon
I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn't get banks to fund me; I couldn't recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn't want to deal with women. -- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water. -- Saint Basil
The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness. -- Joseph Addison
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success? -- John Dryden
You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation. -- Richard Baxter
Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure. -- Samuel Johnson
Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure. -- Robert Penn Warren
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts. -- William Hazlitt
I am the president of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me those votes! -- Abraham Lincoln
We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure. -- Francesc Ferrer i Guardia
The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble. -- Plautus
Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear? -- Francis Quarles
But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity. -- Epicurus
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God , Freedom , Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy ? -- Novalis
True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest. -- Joseph Addison
The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends. -- Thomas Jefferson
Honesty, disinterestedness and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem and confidence of those with whom we live, and on whose esteem our happiness depends -- Thomas Jefferson
Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues, that procure them homage. -- Phoebe Cary
If I am convinced that I will procure the profoundest idea only by undergoing the profoundest pain, I shall beg for strength to endure that pain. -- Kedar Joshi
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies. -- Henry Fielding
To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing. -- Maurice Blondel
A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good. -- Pliny the Elder
it is a higher gloryto stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war. -- Augustine of Hippo
It is not recognized in the full amplitude of the word that all freedom is essentially self-liberation - that I can have only so much freedom as I procure for myself by my owness. -- Max Stirner
I think online dating is a way of procuring people. Like Facebook and Myspace, it's the way that people connect now and procure small children and sometimes dodgy relationships. I don't think it's very healthy. -- Tom Hardy
What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement. -- Oliver Goldsmith

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