#suffers

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port; but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#emperors #fancy #finds #fleet #hear

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible. ↗

— Boyd Rice

#allow #freedom #i #i think #irresponsible

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful. ↗

— Frederick William Robertson

#common #easily #gathers #him #honor

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. ↗

— James Rouse

#architectural #basic #belief #design #i

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others. ↗

— George Santayana

#institution #less #making #more #others

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa. ↗

— Robert Smith

#clever #enough #few #good #idea

When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

#confidence #democracy #diluted #freedom #impaired

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them. ↗

— Alfred Sutro

#always #else #foolishness #our #pay

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever. ↗

— Herodotus

#fortunes #man #men #prosper #same

The ox suffers, the cart complains. ↗