Cause Quotes

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

Aesop’s Fly, sitting on the axle of the chariot, has been much laughed at for exclaiming: What a dust I do raise!

In the olden times the church, by violating the order of nature, proved the existence of her God. At that time miracles were performed with the most astonishing ease. They became so common that the church ordered her priests to desist. And now this same church – the people having found some little sense – […]

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases; what the eye ne’er sees, the heart ne’er rues.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

Ours is an abiding faith in the cause of human freedom. We know it is God’s cause.

A Pasteur, a Morse, an Edison, a Ford, a Wright, a Marx, a Lenin, a Mao Tse Tung are the effects of numberless causes, the causes of endless effects.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.