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What can 'scape the eye
Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart.
Omniscient! — John Milton

'Deserves' is an impossible thing to decide. No one deserves anything. Thank God we don't get what we deserve. — Milton Friedman

Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine. — John Milton

Inflation is taxation without legislation — Milton Friedman

Theories can be based on any assumptions, however bizarre. — Milton Friedman

Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it. — Philip Pullman

Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books. — John Milton

I do not believe there is a natural resource economics. I believe there is good economics and bad economics. — Milton Friedman

Danger will wink on opportunity. — John Milton

Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die. — John Milton

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life. — Charles Stuart Calverley

His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power. — John Milton

The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. — John Milton

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. — John Milton

Meaning Michael Milton; meaning the whole thing. — John Irving

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. — John Milton

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind. — John Milton

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time. — Milton Friedman

And to the faithful: death, the gate of life. — John Milton

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held. — William Wordsworth

I recently bought the box set of 'Doctor Who' and watched it back to back, Unfortunately I wasn't the one facing the TV! — Milton Jones

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public. — Walter Winchell

Theories should be judged by their ability to predict events rather than by the realism of their assumptions. — Milton Friedman

Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses. — John Milton

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. — John Milton

No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality. — John Milton

She was nice to him on Valentine's Day. She gave him a heart-shaped rash. — Milton Berle

Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine? — John Milton

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. — John Milton

The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth. — John Milton

The brazen throat of war. — John Milton

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words. — John Milton

Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. — John Milton

Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words. — John Milton

Where shame is, there is also fear. — John Milton

Children are responsible individuals in embryo. They have ultimate rights of their own and are not simply the playthings of their parents. — Milton Friedman

I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us. — John Milton

The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. — John Milton

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food. — John Milton

I like to consider myself young at heart and ageless. — DeLisha Milton-Jones

Milton Friedman's misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried. — John Kenneth Galbraith

All my wife wanted for Valentine's Day was a little card - American Express. — Milton Berle

Reality ensures that the end of history will never come. — Milton Friedman

We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in. — John Milton

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. — Milton Friedman

I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that. — Little Milton

What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory. — Milton Friedman

The Internet is the most effective instrument we have for globalization. — Milton Friedman

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways. — John Milton

I bought an ideal gift for my mother-in-law - a battery-operated mouth. — Milton Berle

In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment. — Milton Friedman

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he. — John Milton

This man's wife told him, "For Christmas, surprise me." On Christmas Eve he leaned over where she was sleeping and said, "Boo!" — Milton Berle

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. — Milton Friedman

To the man on crutches, dressed in camouflage, who stole my wallet ... you can hide but you can't run. — Milton Jones

The case for prohibiting drugs is exactly as strong and as weak as the case for prohibiting people from overeating. — Milton Friedman

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do. — John Milton

Seas wept from our deep sorrows. — John Milton

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness. — John Milton

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! — John Milton

[U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation. — Milton Friedman

Yours be the advantage all, mine the revenge — John Milton

What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies. — John Milton

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. — John Milton

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. — Milton Friedman

Hail holy light, offspring of heav'n firstborn! — John Milton

Th' unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield/ And what is else not to be overcome? — John Milton

To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade. — John Milton

The preservation of freedom is the protective reason for limiting and decentralizing governmental power. — Milton Friedman

For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance. — John Milton

O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only. — John Milton

The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. — Milton Friedman

And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man. — Alfred Edward Housman

No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words. — Philip Pullman

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. — John Milton

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so. — John Milton

There is no law of conservation which forces the growth of new centers of economic strength to be at the expense of existing centers. — Milton Friedman

Beauty is the mind, heart and balls of the person seeking to be beautiful. — Milton Katselas

His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid. — John Milton

Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion. — Milton H. Erickson

O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes! — John Milton

And miserable it is to be to others cause of misery ... — John Milton

Keep painting - day in - day out. Be absorbed by it. — Milton Avery

Faithful found among the faithless. — John Milton

Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence. — John Milton

A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd. — John Milton

The virtuous mind that ever walks attended
By a strong siding champion, Conscience. — John Milton

Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find? — John Milton

To whom the wilie Adder, blithe and glad. — John Milton

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both. — Milton Friedman

At Christmas you can get real bargains. I saw one item marked down ten dollars. It was a yacht. — Milton Berle

People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. — Milton A. Lee

Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east. — John Milton

One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over. — Milton Friedman

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest,
Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven. — John Milton

So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself. — John Milton

Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable. — Milton Sapirstein

I photographed Arthur Coble and his sons Milton and Darrel as they did chores, but the vicious winds made it difficult to see and breathe. — Arthur Rothstein

Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all. — John Milton