Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Lord Byron

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
Lord Byron

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas.
Clarence Darrow

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
Honore de Balzac

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
William Arthur Ward

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Victor Hugo

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.
John Kenneth Galbraith

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
Thomas Merton

It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.
Johnny Cash

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
William James

School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobodys perfect, so why practice?
Billie Joe Armstrong

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.
William Faulkner

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.
Sophocles

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
Hank Aaron