#chief

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. ↗

— Hippocrates

#clearness #detracts #language #much #nothing

Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life. ↗

— Jack K. Cooke

#having #here #hobby #interest #life

Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books. ↗

— Avi Arad

#because #books #chief #creative #day

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. ↗

— Aristotle

#comfort #deeds #friends #incite #keep

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ↗

— Aristotle

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I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#chief #child #cradle #devil #every

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it? ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#come #common #fear #foreign #foreign languages

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#chiefest #man #point #willing

Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#did #doors #down #father #go