All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Albert Einstein

I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin Franklin

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Benjamin Franklin

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. Lewis

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Bruce Lee

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
John Wooden

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle

There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
Ernest Hemingway

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Plato

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Mae West

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte