To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Bertrand Russell

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Napoleon Bonaparte

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.
Rebecca H. Davis

We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.
James D. Watkins

We need a little more 'Hail to the Chief.'
Robert Teeter

What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
William Shenstone

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
James Russell Lowell

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian.
Mack McLarty

When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
Adam Clymer

When I was 14, I played in a summer league. One night the chief umpire asked me if I would like to try umpiring. There was a Little League tournament coming up and he needed more umpires than he had.
Jim Evans

When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.
George Crook

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.
Adam Smith

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Grover Cleveland