ones Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about ones.
“Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
- Arthur Conan Doyle
“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.”
- Phyllis Diller
“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.”
- Wangari Maathai
“People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.”
- Pound, Ezra
“Since the reduction of risk factors is the scientific basis for primary prevention, the World Health Organization promotes the development of an integrated strategy for prevention of several diseases, rather than focusing on individual ones.”
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
“They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.”
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.”
- Condoleezza Rice
“Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.”
- Seneca