A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
Bernard Baruch
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Otto von Bismarck
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Miguel de Cervantes
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.
Benito Mussolini
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
Xenophon
Hatred observes with more care than love does.
Mason Cooley
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
Walter Benjamin
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
Anthony Trollope
In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.
Charles D. Broad
Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.
Robert Anton Wilson
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
Dave Barry
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
David Hume
They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.
Anthony Trollope
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