Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.
The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.
We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers hook ? by greed, by trafficking, by violence, by ruse or by excessive manual work that deprives you of leisure for the service of God ? in a word by any other means ? if you have desired to pile up gold or silver, remember what the Gospel says, 'Fool! They will snatch your soul away during the night! Who will get your hoard' (cf. Lk. 12:20)? Again, 'He piles up money without knowing to whom it will go' (Ps. 39:6).
Liberalism teaches those who have fallen behind in the economic scramble to blame others for their failure. This attitude stimulates juices of resentment and deprives its holders of the power to change their condition.
When a judge goes beyond [his proper function] and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values the framers and ratifiers did not put there, he deprives the people of their liberty. That liberty, which the Constitution clearly envisions, is the liberty of the people to set their own social agenda through the process of democracy.
Adversity deprives us of our judgment.
Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.
The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play.
No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.
The saints should always remember that God sees not as man sees; that he does not willingly afflict his children, and that if he requires them to endure present privation and trial, it is that they may escape greater tribulations which would otherwise inevitably overtake them. If He deprives them of any present blessing, it is that he may bestow upon them greater and more glorious ones by-and by.
[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education. . . deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance.
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.
Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble.
The problem with being passionately in love. . . is that it deprives you of too much sleep.
Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it, for the more power he attributes to Destiny, the more he deprives himself of the power which God granted him when he gave him reason.
Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.
Greediness of getting more deprives. . . the enjoyment of what it had got.
The ancient bitter opposition to improved methods [of production] on the ancient theory that it more than temporarily deprives men of employment. . . has no place in the gospel of American progress.
Frivolity, under whatever form it appears, deprives attention of its power, thought of its originality, and sentiment of its depth.
