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Definition of Suffice
Suffice

To be enough, or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.

To satisfy; to content; to be equal to the wants or demands of.

To furnish; to supply adequately.

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Suffice Quotations

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
Mohandas Gandhi

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
William Butler Yeats

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
Victor Hugo

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
Bertrand Russell

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. Wilson

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.
Alfred North Whitehead

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
Thomas B. Macaulay

I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.
Bobby Darin

Suffice Translations

suffice in Dutch is toereikend zijn, toereiken
suffice in French is faire bien, suffisons, suffisent, suffisez
suffice in Italian is bastare
suffice in Latin is sufficio
suffice in Portuguese is baste


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