War and physic are governed by the eye. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
May widows wed as often as they can,
And ever for the better change their man;
And some devouring plague pursue their lives,
Who will not well be governed by their wives. [ Dryden ]
The human race is governed by its imagination. [ Napoleon ]
A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty. [ Seneca ]
A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand. [ La Bruyere ]
It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws. [ Aristotle ]
All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. [ Voltaire ]
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. [ Frederick the Great ]
A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others. [ La Bruyère ]
We are often governed by people not only weaker than ourselves, but even by those whom we think so. [ Lord Greville ]
The generality of men are wholly governed by names in matters of good and evil, so far as the qualities relate to and affect the actions of men. [ South ]
Let men say, we be men of good government; being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal. [ William Shakespeare ]
"A fair day's wages for a fair day's work," is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing; yet in what corner of this planet was that ever realised? [ Carlyle ]
Government is a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing over-much kills the self-help and energy of the governed. [ Wendell Phillips ]
The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it may be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country. [ Cowley ]
It may be too much to expect that nations should be governed in their relations towards each other by the precepts of Christian morality, but surely it is not too much to ask that they should conform to the code of courtesy and good breeding recognized among gentlemen in the intercourse of social life. [ Geo. S. Hillard ]
Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army. [ Napoleon I ]