Quotable Quotes

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The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.

O.A. Battista

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We tell our thoughts, like our children, to put on their hats and coats before they go out.

Henry Watson Fowler,

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People say law but they mean wealth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose

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I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.

Ellen Sturgis Hooper

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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Anatole France

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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Arnold Toynbee

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I think most people are more important than their opinions.

Jorge Luis Borges

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

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Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteen as to find our bad traits in out forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Van Brooks

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We must not read either law or history backwards

Helen M. Cam

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People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. - Joseph F. Newton

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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

John Locke

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"I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature; and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries 'Give give'"

Abigail Adams

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If you want to be thought a lier, always tell the truth.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Friendship is honey--but don't eat it all


Moroccan proverb

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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Virginia Woolf

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The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was ; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Lyndon Baines Johnson

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Whom the gods would make bigots, they first deprive of humor.

The Rev. James M. Gillis