#served

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells. ↗

— William Taylor

#cells #cured #found #hanging #honey

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#considered #cut #decisive #language #observed

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#center #even #eventually #famous #front

In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well. ↗

— Edmund S. Muskie

#anger #become #campaigns #exaggeration #heat

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#having #humor #hurt #just #keep

My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#basically #been #career #continues #few

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#family #family life #goes #intimate #justice

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#blame #causes #completely #conscience #exposed

To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#benefits #continue #honor #improve #long

If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#alternatives #any #facts #fit #itself