The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.
If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.
If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too.
The haughty American nation. . . makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.
Winning once can be a fluke; winning twice proves you are the best.
Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
Photography is the most transparent of the art mediums devised or discovered by man. It is probably for this reason that it proves so difficult to make the photograph transcend its almost inevitable function as document and act as a work of art as well.
Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake.
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
There is but one thing that can free a man from superstition, and that is belief. All history proves it. The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.
Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.
The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
An argument which proves too much, proves nothing.
The appearance of religion only on Sunday proves that it is only an appearance.
Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.
Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.
There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.
Every time I do it at least proves I can still do it.
And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.