Affords Quotes

“Islam affords women their rightful status, and encourages them to work in all sectors, as long as they are afforded appropriate respect.”

“Love affords you these three things: smiles, hugs, and kisses. Joy affords you these three things: pleasure, laughter, and good memories.”

“A highway, a bridge, a navigable canal, for example, may in most cases be both made and maintained by a small toll upon the carriages which make use of them: a harbour, by moderate port-duty upon the tonnage of the shipping which load or unload in it. The coinage, another institution for facilitating commerce, in many countries, not only defrays its own expense, but affords a small revenue or seignorage to the sovereign. The post-office, another institution for the same purpose, over and above defraying its own expense, affords in almost all countries a very considerable revenue to the sovereign. When the carriages which pass over a highway or a bridge, and the lighters which sail upon a navigable canal, pay toll in proportion to their weight or their tonnage, they pay for the maintenance of those public works exactly in proportion to the wear and tear which they occasion of them. It seems scarce possible to invent a more equitable way of maintaining such works.”

“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.”

“Confrontation affords you the opportunity to hear the other side of the story.”

“Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.”

“That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it.”

“Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.”

“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.”