Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits or wine until my wedding day. To this I attribute my continual good health, endurance, and an iron constitution.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

Cyberbullying isn't real. But bullying and harassment certainly are real. Trust me, friends, I went to school in England. They've got bullying down to a fine art. I know, because I was one of its chief architects. I was awful to my fellow schoolboys.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists.

My mother is a teacher, and my father is a chief marine engineer.

It was only on sympathy wave had KCR won the elections in 2014 and became the chief minister.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

The establishment of a society for the encouragement of arts will produce great benefits before they are perverted to mischiefs.

Seeing photographs of my dad, Bert, on the beach with a knotted handkerchief on his head to avoid getting sunburn still brings a smile to my face.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.