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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi

Good, Heart, Greatest

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Freedom, Living

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William Shakespeare

Life, Honor, Far

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'
Audrey Hepburn

Others, Wonderful, Whole

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
John F. Kennedy

Single, Vote, Pay

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
W. H. Auden

Love, Meet, Africa

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry

Life, Peace, God

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin

Experience, School, Learn

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Aristotle

Truth, Plato, Dearer

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Remember, Friends, Old

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
Plato

Nature, God, Men

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.
Marianne Williamson

Peace, God, Lord

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
Joseph Auslander

Peace, Men, Living

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Friend, Tree

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.
Patrick Henry

Religion, Family, Give

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
Voltaire

Pleasure, Necessary, Mankind

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor Hugo

Beauty, Nature, God

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.
Jeff Bridges

Hurt, Alive, Sensitive

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'
T. S. Eliot

Mother, Human, Young

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore

Him, Happen, Die

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Ovid

Integrity, Keep, Worth

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Children, Him, Gift

My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
Walter Hagen

Wonderful, Stop, Bunker

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
Honore de Balzac

Chance, Sovereign, Deity

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Honore de Balzac

Beauty, Alone, Children

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.
Freddie Mercury

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.
Samuel Johnson

Mind, Friend, Clear

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.
Thomas Fuller

Nothing, Pay, Cost

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy, ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic process that we as a Country hold so dear.
Charles Rangel

Integrity, Democracy, Country

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
Joseph Addison

Person, Rather, Talking

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