Top 197 Furnish Quotes & Sayings

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

Photographs furnish evidence. Something we hear about, but doubt, seems proven when we're shown a photograph of it.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

Books do furnish a room.

I nearly always wear a boring suit but I do sometimes furnish the with long dangly earrings or belly button jewelry.

California can and does furnish the best bad things that are obtainable in America.

This circus that's advertised to show and furnish a little amusement for us heathens is owned by a woman, one whose pluck catches my sympathy every time.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of the inequalities and diversities of the universe.

If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange.

I should be pleased to see all the nations on the earth prosperous and happy and rich, for it would furnish to me the best evidence of the prosperity of my native land.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation.

Do you know what the good side of crack is? If you're up at the right hour, you can get a VCR for $1.50. You can furnish your whole house for $10.95.

The capsules of the geranium furnish admirable barometers. Fasten the beard, when fully ripe, upon a stand, and it will twist itself or untwist, according as the air is moist or dry.

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.

This nation has given the world an object lesson in the whole duty of neutrals, which is to furnish an outlet for the wrath of a belligerent who is annoyed because he cannot defeat his opponent.

Mountains and oceans do not furnish any impassable barrier to the extension of trade.

One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now.

A poor man cannot rival the rich in luxury of life, but he can in luxury of knowledge. He cannot furnish his house as the wealthy can, but he can furnish his head. He cannot found a house of note, but he may found a mind of mark. Though some kingdoms may be adorned or afflicted with kings, learning has always been a republic, where all are equal who know.

The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of Prejudices.

I liken myself to someone who built the house he will live in one day and is preparing to furnish it.

Books don't only furnish a room: they also make the best holiday gifts.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.

The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a `waiting room', which it would be best to tear down.

Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.

I was a fairly strict vegetarian - I ate eggs and dairy products but nothing that would involve killing an animal to furnish the food on my plate.

Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.

A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.

My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.

When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every spring?

Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial climates into one.

Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

The trivial round, the common task,Would furnish all we ought to ask.

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men.

It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.