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Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. -- Epictetus
Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound. -- William Bligh
Go where you will, if a shilling can there be procured, you may expect to meet with individuals in search of it. -- John James Audubon
At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house. -- Dolley Madison
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. -- Maria Montessori
If we had only those things which are procured with ease and freedom from danger, we should find the comforts and luxuries, if not many of the necessaries of life, considerably diminished. -- Dorothea Dix
After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated. -- David Ricardo
In my own creations, the earliest influence came from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, China, Africa and Persia. In fact, one of my earlier creations was a range of tunics, made from silk procured from the islands of Madagascar. -- Mary McFadden
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
There were some tragic cases of women whose love was abused, who for a certain time procured important documents or information, not knowing who for, what service they worked for, and for a variety reasons got jailed, were tried and sentenced. -- Markus Wolf
By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them. -- David Ricardo
Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it. -- Sir Fulke Greville
The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured. -- Samuel Johnson
Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured. -- Ovid
To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity! -- Michel de Montaigne
I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with. -- Joseph Priestley
RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them. -- Ambrose Bierce
The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain. -- Pliny the Elder
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better. -- Iris Murdoch
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. -- Maria Montessori
When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation. -- Aristotle
God forbid that all children, of whom daily so great a multitude die, would perish, but that also for these, the merciful God, who wishes no one to perish, has procured some remedy unto salvation.... -- Pope Innocent III
The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered -- Samuel Johnson
The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered. -- Samuel Johnson

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