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Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it out of wood, you must make it out of words.
~miscellaneous quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
~inspirational sayings about Miscellaneous quotes by Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955
[M]y own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
~miscellaneous quotes by J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds and Other Papers, 1927
He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration.
~famous quotes about Miscellaneous by Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities, 1930
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
~miscellaneous sayings by Albert Einstein
Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural as an oak tree. It comes out of the past; its foundations are laid far back.
~miscellaneous quotes by Wendell Phillips, Address, Anti-Slavery Society, 1852
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
~inspirational sayings about Miscellaneous quotes by Paul Valéry, Mauvaises pensées et autres, 1942
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
~miscellaneous quotes by Eden Phillpotts, A Shadow Passes
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man - the biography of the man himself cannot be written.
~famous quotes about Miscellaneous by Mark Twain, Autobiography, 1924
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
~miscellaneous sayings by Dale Carnegie
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.
~miscellaneous quotes by Andy Warhol
It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.
~inspirational sayings about Miscellaneous quotes by La Rochefoucauld, Reflections, 1665
I remembered a story of how Bach was approached by a young admirer one day and asked, But Papa Bach, how do you manage to think of all these new tunes? My dear fellow, Bach is said to have answered, according to my version, I have no need to think of them. I have the greatest difficulty not to step on them when I get out of bed in the morning and start moving around my room.
~miscellaneous quotes by Laurens Van der Post
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
~famous quotes about Miscellaneous by Walter Gropius
In every age the good old days were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
~miscellaneous sayings by Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951
Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don't own, to make a dish the dog wouldn't eat.
~miscellaneous quotes by Author Unknown
Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale.
~good sayings about Fathers by Victoria Secunda, Women and Their Fathers, 1992
Virtue is its own revenge.
~miscellaneous quotes by E.Y. Harburn
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
~motivational quotes about Honesty sayings by Winston Churchill
When hope is hungry, everything feeds it.
~miscellaneous sayings by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
~miscellaneous quotes by Mark Twain
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
~good sayings about Vanity by Thomas Wolfe
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
~miscellaneous quotes by Lucan
A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it.
~motivational quotes about Hate sayings by Charles Baudelaire, Advice to Young Writers, 1867
No matter how busy we are, we owe it to others to be courteous, We can’t always oblige, but we can always speak obligingly.
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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
~miscellaneous quotes by Buddha
The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
~good sayings about Libraries by Norman Cousins
I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it.
~miscellaneous quotes by Jonathan Winters
What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be sorry and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.
~motivational quotes about Tennis sayings by J.M. Barrie
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
~miscellaneous sayings by H.L. Mencken
Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.
~miscellaneous quotes by Kathleen Turner
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
~good sayings about Self Confidence by Leonardo da Vinci
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
~miscellaneous quotes by Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524
The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.
~motivational quotes about Dieting sayings by Andy Rooney
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
~miscellaneous sayings by William R. Alger
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