Quotes with born-yesterday

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  • Addison Mizner Poets are born, not paid.
    Addison Mizner
    American architect (1872 - 1933)
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  • Bob Dylan Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
    Suicide remarks are torn
    From the fool's gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
    Plays wasted words, proves to warn
    That he not busy being born is busy dying.
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Don Marquis Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Dale Carnegie Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Bob Dylan Seems sick an' it's hungry, it's tired an' it's torn, it looks like it's a-dyin' an' it's hardly been born.
    Bob Dylan (1962)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Aaron Klug Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • John Dryden Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Malcolm X Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Romain Rolland Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.
    Romain Rolland
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1915) (1866 - 1944)
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  • Edward Dahlberg So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Bruce Springsteen So they put a rifle in my hand Sent me off to a foreign land To go and kill the yellow man Born in the U.S.A.
    Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alan Watts Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Ada Leverson Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
    Love at Second Sight (1916) Ch. xviii
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Joseph Heller Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
    Joseph Heller
    American author (1923 - 1999)
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  • Tryon Edwards Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Barry Switzer Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
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  • Dwight L. Moody Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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