Edmund Burke Quotes

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Edmund Burke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797

Topics

LoveMenWiseTaxMoreTo Love

I am very hands on doing my own work, all my own stunt work.

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

WorkI AmDoingHandsMy OwnOwn

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.

John Berryman

LifeFriendsSayBoringMust

I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.

John Henrik Clarke

FamilyLoveFatherMotherRichLand

The Jewish exodus from North Africa, in the late nineteen-fifties and the nineteen-sixties, brought hundreds of thousands of Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian Jews to France.

Tom Reiss

LateAfricaJewishFranceJews

Rock guitar has been around for decades now, and there are so many strong traditions, and so much of it is just burned into my fingers. So, nine times out of 10, when I pick up the guitar to jam something, it sounds pretty cliche.

Rivers Cuomo

StrongGuitarNowRockOutUp

Songs have been my greatest teachers and continue to be really important in my life.

Mary Gauthier

LifeMy LifeImportantTeachersBeen

We can approach God's throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

Joyce Meyer

GodPowerConfidentBoldnessThrone

Coming from New Zealand and Australia is like a tough pre-school for Hollywood. And having been on 'Neighbours,' even though the agents I met with hadn't seen it, they knew it's where Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce had come from. It was a foot in the door.

Jay Ryan

DoorToughNewAustraliaHollywood

I said a vote to leave would be a Brexit tax. I couldn't think of anything stronger than that.

Jose Angel Gurria

ThinkStrongerTaxSaidVoteLeave

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

Douglas Coupland

ProcessDownHeadPaperBooksOnce

I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.

Deepika Padukone

BusinessJobLuxuryYouFocused

I grew up with horses and cattle, running around on dirt hills with this real sense of space. We didn't have neighbours - well, the nearest ones were kilometres away.

Deborah Mailman

SpaceRealDirtUpHillsWell

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