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A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.
Thomas Jefferson

Good, Men, Government

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa

Love, Difficult, Hunger

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Cannot, Except

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
Muhammad Ali

Sure, Penicillin

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily, Eyes, Sky

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir

Beauty, Nature, Strength

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson Mandela

Work, Water, Salt

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.
Bill Cosby

Long, Two, Proud

The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.
Charlie Sheen

Wanted, News, Press

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
Jim Davis

Diet, Cake, Pie

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Alone, Lives, Creature

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
Nikolai Berdyaev

Spiritual, Question, Material

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
James A. Baldwin

Human, Treat, Less

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

Equality, Sleep, Law

Man lives for science as well as bread.
William James

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings

Honesty, Anyone, Wealth

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mean, Whole, Used

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
Ambrose Bierce

Act, Side, Determine

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
John C. Maxwell

Alone, Live, Remember

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
James A. Baldwin

Life, Respect, Effort

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
Omar Khayyam

Wine, Thou, Loaf

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
Jack Kevorkian

Sports, Happy, Working

Acorns were good until bread was found.
Francis Bacon

Good, Until, Found

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson

Life, Love, God

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
Jesus Christ

God, Alone, Live

And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.
Sharron Angle

God, Government, Daily

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.
Matthew Henry

Life, Heart, Here

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin

Love, Time, Made

Eaten bread is forgotten.
Thomas Fuller

Forgotten, Eaten

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Spiritual, Heart, Tomorrow

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