Quotes with -they

Quotes 4541 till 4560 of 5636.

  • Edmund Burke They talk as if England were not in Europe.
    The Speeches (1816) p 86
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Matthew Prior They talk most who have the least to say.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Joseph Conrad They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Herman Melville They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Orson Welles They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Samuel Johnson They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Billy Sunday They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a both, but it does you good.
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Carl Sandburg They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.
    Chicago l. 6 (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Anthony Holden They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleasant, intelligent people, but once they get inside the Palace they're riveted to the status quo and they lose track of public opinion in the real world.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • William S. Burroughs They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • John Selden They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Benjamin Franklin They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • George Earle Buckle They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.
    George Earle Buckle
    English editor and biographer (1854 - 1935)
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  • John Selden They that govern the most make the least noise.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Ben Jonson They that know no evil will suspect none.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Francis Bacon They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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