In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Calvin Coolidge

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
Henri Poincare

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.
Delia Ephron

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
John Ruskin

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
Orlando Gibbons

Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.
Thomas Couture

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
Charles Caleb Colton

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
Lewis H. Lapham

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
Jean de la Bruyere

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
Emanuel Swedenborg

Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
Mortimer Adler