#neither

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#child #children #consults #does #flatters

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#bathe #be yourself #goose #itself #make

I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it. ↗

— Shania Twain

#ashamed #come #embarrassed #experienced #i

In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#both #choice #city #cold #first

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#bitter #cynical #i #i am #i do

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#better #checkered #dare #defeat #enjoy

After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#affected #after #appearance #criticisms #had

The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#advisable #affairs #business #conduct #economist

The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood. ↗

— Junipero Serra

#generally #good #here #land #neither

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

#award #blame #criticism #discriminate #duties