Quotes with ago-they

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• They know enough who know how to learn.

  ― Henry Brooks Adams
  American historian (1838 - 1918)
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• They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

  ― Richard Burton
  Welsh actor (1925 - 1984)
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• They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.

  ― Bud Abbott
  American comedian and actor (1897 - 1974)
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• They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.

  ― Joyce Grenfell
   
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• They loved that I put a bone through my nose. They loved that I had my penis pushed back inside me.

  Source: As quoted in Do you really want to be in our tribe? in The Telegraph (1 March 2005)

  ― Bruce Parry
   
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• They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.

  ― Bruce Vilanch
  American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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• They make a wilderness and call it peace.

  ― Tacitus
  Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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• They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.

  ― L. Schefer
   
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• They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

  ― C. S. Forester
  English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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• They may walk with a little less spring in their step, and their ranks are growing thinner, but let us never forget, when they were young, these men saved the world.

  Source: Speech on the 50th anniversary of D-Day at the United States Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, 6 June 1994

  ― Bill Clinton
  President of the US (1946 - )
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• They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

  ― Confucius
  Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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• They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis [A Sheep].

  ― Plutarch
  Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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• They never fail who die in a great cause.

  ― Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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• They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

  ― Thomas Brackett Reed
   
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• They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think.

  ― Matthew Prior
  British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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• They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.

  ― Bernard Pivot
  French journalist and interviewer (1935 - )
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• They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.

  ― Billy Gibbons
  American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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• They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.

  Source: Dark Poet

  ― Bill Hicks
  American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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• They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time.

  ― Bobby Vinton
  American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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• They said, ''You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, ''Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.''

  ― Wallace Stevens
  American poet (1879 - 1955)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• clean-shaven
• contemplated
• compensation
• subtleties
• knowledge
• prolonged

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