The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
- Agnes DengIf a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.
- Alan SkrainkaI am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.
- Alan WeinsteinRulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
- Alberto LozanoI make no doubt but there are three species of the willow-wrens: two I know perfectly; but have not been able yet to procure the third.
- Alex SaittaIf I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.
- Alison MoranoThe way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
- William Hazlitt