“As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love...” — Jonathan Swift Quote

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

Makeup is only fun if it's occasional and capricious - just like it's a treat to have an empty day ahead, but it wouldn't be if you were doing 20 years in Parkhurst.

You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game.

Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.