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  • That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.
  • If I were asked for a one line answer to the question' What makes a woman good in bed?' I would say, 'A man who is good in bed.
  • By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
  • Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
  • That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
  • If we could all rephrase the question from What was your most embarrassing moment? to What was your most embarrassing year? Then I might be able to give you an honest answer.
  • The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
  • I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
  • Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
  • Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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  • Sigmund Freud The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?''
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Bernard Meltzer Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
    Bernard Meltzer
    American professor (1916 - 1998)
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  • Ivern Ball Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
    Ivern Ball
    American author (1926 - 1992)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Abbott ''How do you know so much about everything?'' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ''By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.
    John Abbott
    Canadian lawyer and politician (1821 - 1893)
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  • Maya Angelou A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Bruce Lee A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Carl Sandburg Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Lester Bangs The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.
    Lester Bangs
    American music journalist, critic and author (1948 - 1982)
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  • Thomas Mann You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Stephen Bayley ''Where do architects and designers get their ideas?'' The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?
    Stephen Bayley
    British art criticus (1951 - )
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  • Lewis Carroll ''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
    Alice in wonderland
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Voltaire 'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Margaret Mead A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Ezra Pound A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Solomon Ibn Gabriel A wise man's question contains half the answer.
    Solomon Ibn Gabriel
     
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  • Karl Kraus A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Erica Jong Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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