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  • But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough, now,O L, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORD1 Kings19:4.

  • So two cheers for democracy: one because it admits varietyand two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occasion to give three. Only Love the Beloved Republic deserves that.

    - E(dward) M(organ) Forster
    Two Cheers for Democracy,'What I Believe'. The phrase'Love the Beloved Republic' is taken from Swinburne's poem'Hertha'.

  • There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

    - Hubert Horatio Humphrey
      Speech,1 May.

  • But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

    -William James
      The Principles of Psychology, ch.7.

  • I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

    -Thomas Jefferson
      Letter to  John  Adams, 25  Apr.

  • For coloured girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf.

    - Ntozake originally Paulette Williams Shange
      Title of 'choreo-poem'.

  • Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.

    - BettyJane Wylie
      Everywoman's Money Book (with Lynne MacFarlane).

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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