We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
Henry David Thoreau

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
Henry David Thoreau

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Oscar Wilde

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Oscar Wilde

If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.
Jimi Hendrix

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
John Adams

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Sigmund Freud

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
Plato

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
Jonathan Swift

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
Thomas Paine

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
Thomas Paine

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
Thomas Paine

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
Thomas Paine

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
Plautus

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Donald Trump

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
George S. Patton

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Saint Augustine