I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.

Republics are created by the virtue public spirit and intelligence of the citizens. They fall when the wise are banished from the public councils because they dare to be honest and the profligate are rewarded because they flatter the people in order to betray them.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention but it has no persuasive value at all.

If you want to be an entrepreneur it's not a job it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails first thing in the morning you'll read emails and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself.

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

Common sense and history tell you that rewarding illegal behavior will only encourage more of it.

The majority see the obstacles the few see the objectives history records the successes of the latter while oblivion is the reward of the former.

There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves the more it's rewarded.

The health care system is really designed to reward you for being unhealthy. If you are a healthy person and work hard to be healthy there are no benefits.

I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling but I'll settle for second best.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Happiness is a virtue not its reward.

Unless you choose to do great things with it it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much power you have.

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

In our civilization and under our republican form of government intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment childhood memories and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love therefore is its own reward.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

My mother used to tell me man gives the award God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.

God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.