Either
One of two; the one or the other; -- properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one.
Each of two; the one and the other; both; -- formerly, also, each of any number.
precedes two, or more, coordinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or.
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Either Quotations
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert Einstein
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William Shakespeare
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
Mark Twain
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
Either Translations
either in German is entweder, entweder, beide
either in Italian is o
either in Norwegian is hvilken som helst
either in Spanish is una
either in Swedish is heller, endera
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