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Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Marilyn Monroe

Good, Lovers, Husbands

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Aristotle

Best, Government, Equality

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates

Life, Good, Valued

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle

Art, Lies, Taught

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Henry David Thoreau

Truth, Justice, May

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Edgar Allan Poe

Life, Happy, Real

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
Henry Ward Beecher

History, Heart, Memorable

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
Ambrose Bierce

Dead, Purpose, Used

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
John Ruskin

Work, Great, Art

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Iris Murdoch

Love, Someone, Matter

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nature, After, Present

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Franklin P. Adams

Women, Men, Vote

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.
Thomas Hardy

Men, Woman, Feelings

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
William Hazlitt

Love, Friendship, Hate

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
E. F. Schumacher

Attitudes, Shapes, Eagles

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Arnold Bennett

Life, Happiness, Happy

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
Charles Lamb

Time, Good, Give

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?
Algernon H. Blackwood

Beautiful, Evil, Place

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
Miguel de Cervantes

Greatest, Within, Combat

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Time, Writing, Words

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
John Maynard Keynes

Mind, Nothing, Except

Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
Erica Jong

God, Brain, Between

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.
Igor Stravinsky

Life, Knowledge, Wisdom

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William Ellery Channing

Great, Men, Best

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.
Howard Nemerov

Nature, History, Poetry

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
Lascelles Abercrombie

Poetry, Tired, Remember

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
Stephen Gardiner

Approach, Houses, French

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
Agnes Repplier

Nothing, Before, Mad

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.
Richard Leakey

Control, Impossible, Kenya

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
Georg Brandes

Good, Friendly, Whole

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