Be careful! Never show your superiors that you are superior to them.
If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence.
The beauties of conception are always superior to those of expression.
A woman who sets her rights, the supposed right to privacy or right over her own body, above the life of another human being is saying that a woman's rights are superior to human rights. She has put herself above the human race, she has made herself the executor over life and death. Is that a woman's right?
Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.
A woman who is perfectly woman is superior to a man who is imperfectly man, just as a farmer who is faithful to his land and performs his work perfectly is superior to a king who cannot do his own work.
I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C. S. ) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.
The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life.
Sometimes I call myself a freelance, I can't see any one of the great religions as superior to others.
A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.
The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.
Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.
Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.
One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
If you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top head Mason of the World, you will discover that the dread individual and the Chief of the Society of Jesus [i. e. , the Superior General of the Jesuit Order] are one and the same person.
Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other.