A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree

A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie.
Desiderius Erasmus

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
Ambrose Bierce

Actually, the year anniversary of what you just heard, my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together, and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
Phil Lesh

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
Anna Neagle

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
Alexander Hamilton

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Thomas Fuller

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
Vittorio Alfieri

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Coco Chanel

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
John Updike

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.
Mary Douglas

For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.
Paul Weyrich

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.
Athenaeus

Happiness does not consist in self-love.
Joseph Butler

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Thomas Paine

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I'm more of like a recreational surfer, not a consist surfer. Some people get out every week or every day.
Marguerite Moreau

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of voice, but out of chaos.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley