Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Truth is always in harmony with herself and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

First I shall name the eagle of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest of great strength and high flight he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.

Probably induced by the asthma I started reading and writing early on my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.

Traditional matter must be glorified since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things the listeners we must remember needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

In our nature however there is a provision alike marvelous and merciful that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Man's real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

I think there was a revolution in poetry associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Not life but good life is to be chiefly valued.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

The dupe of friendship and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

We know the past and its great events the present in its multitudinous complications chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

If liberty and equality as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature body and soul and chiefly of the soul.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.