The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
David Hume

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.
Bob Barker

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty is whatever gives joy.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. White

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.
Francis Ford Coppola

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
Fred Rogers

The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.
Gustave Flaubert

Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.
George Takei

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
Ezra Pound

Time takes all and gives all.
Giordano Bruno

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
Jawaharlal Nehru

And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.
Alicia Keys

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.
Steven Morrissey

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Honore de Balzac

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
Samuel Johnson

Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel Johnson