Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

The only security men can have for their political liberty consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based as associations for utility or pleasure are on a fair exchange.

Love consists in this that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

For if there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

My practicality consists in this in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength my only strength.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Knowledge is two-fold and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true but in the negation of that which is false.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home wondering why the hell you went.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam not a stagnant pool.