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Definition of Either

Either

One of two; the one or the other; -- properly used of two things, but sometimes of a larger number, for any one.

Each of two; the one and the other; both; -- formerly, also, each of any number.

precedes two, or more, coordinate words or phrases, and is introductory to an alternative. It is correlative to or.

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Either Quotations

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert Einstein

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mahatma Gandhi

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
Mark Twain

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C. S. Lewis

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.
Thomas Jefferson

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
John F. Kennedy

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
John Lennon

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
Friedrich Nietzsche

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Tony Robbins

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Lao Tzu

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao Tzu

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
Wayne Dyer

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
Eminem

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Aristotle

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
Aristotle

I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
Jimi Hendrix

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
Theodore Roosevelt

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.
Niccolo Machiavelli

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Either Translations

either in German is entweder, entweder, beide
either in Italian is o
either in Norwegian is hvilken som helst
either in Spanish is una
either in Swedish is heller, endera

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