#principal

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#end #fewer #happiness #look #marriage

Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#cities #contain #entire #fifty #foreign

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#animal #called #detest #forth #hate

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. ↗

— Julien Green

#author #book #characters #escape #itself

Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education. ↗

— Hugh MacDiarmid

#education #escaping #fortunate #nearly #our

Regarding 'Ferris Bueller,' I was in the Czech Republic once, in Prague, making a movie at the same time as Jeffrey Jones, who played the principal, who was making a different movie. The Super Bowl was going to be playing at this bar at midnight, so we decided we would go watch the Super Bowl at this bar at midnight in Prague together. ↗

— Edie McClurg

#bowl #czech #czech republic #decided #different

The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#disproved #everything #folly #his #much

In a forbearance, the homeowner pays interest and principal on a smaller mortgage, at least for a time, but still owes the full amount. The lower monthly payment helps with affordability, giving stressed homeowners a break. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#break #forbearance #full #giving #helps

The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#contemplating #crisis #disgust #early #even

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. ↗

— Horace

#first #good #good sense #good writing #parent