Increases Quotes

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Wind, Fans

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats

Beauty, Joy, Forever

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy

Knowledge, Ignorance, Greater

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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine

Life, Friendship, Evening

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Aristotle

Evil, Taken, Eye

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.
Ron Paul

Future, Simple, Mean

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest Hemingway

Age, Risk, Equal

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest Hemingway

Death, Fear, Wealth

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams

Power, Society, Character

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowledge, Doubt, Accurately

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
Pope John Paul II

Experience, Away, Rather

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
Colin Powell

Life, Health, Destiny

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Charles Morgan

Knowledge, Wonder

Today, and I'm very strongly against tax increases.
Donald Trump

Today, Against, Tax

You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less.
Mike Murdock

Away, Makes, Less

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon

Friendship, Friends, Seldom

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
Mason Cooley

Equality, Struggling, Number

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. Rowling

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Friedrich Schiller

Blame, Greatness, Guilt

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.
Andre Maurois

Work, Geometric, According

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
Francois Rabelais

Time, Good, Down

The medicine increases the disease.
Virgil

Disease, Medicine

Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'
Paul Ryan

Government, Law, Since

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
Ovid

Understand, Medicine, Feared

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
Sallust

Health, End, Everything

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
Saadi

Kindness, Enemy, Friend

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
Pierre Corneille

Desire, Postponed

Look, only in Washington is not raising taxes considered a tax cut. Nobody's getting a tax cut here. We're not cutting taxes. We're preventing tax increases from occurring.
Paul Ryan

Here, Getting, Nobody

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value.
Amy Poehler

Heart, Give, Try

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Laurence Sterne

Knowledge, Desire, Riches

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