Quotes About Measure

Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life

For real wealth is the developed productive power of all individuals. The measure of wealth is then not any longer, in any way, labour time, but rather disposable time.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning . What was that from? Measure for Measure ? But perhaps, truth was asleep until the end of reckoning. There was going to be an awful lot of reckoning when the time came.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.

They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.

Man is not man simply because of bodily attributes. The standard of divine measure and judgment is his intelligence and spirit

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

It doesn't take much of a rule to measure a mean man.

[W]e are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.

Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger.

A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy

The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius.

In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.

Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.

There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value.

Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.