Quotes with born-yesterday

Quotes 381 till 400 of 490.

  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • P. T. Barnum There's a sucker born every minute.
    P. T. Barnum
    American showman and circus operator (1810 - 1891)
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  • Hazel Scott There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.
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  • Bob Dylan There's seven people dead
    On a South Dakota farm
    Somewhere in the distance
    There's seven new people born
    The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Jim Morrison They claim everyone was born, but I don't recall it. Maybe I was having one of my blackouts.
    Jim Morrison
    American singer, poet and songwriter (1943 - 1971)
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  • Joseph Conrad They were born, they suffered, they died; yet it is a great tale!
    Chance (1913)
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • John Milton This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • John Dryden Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • William Butler Yeats To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Ruth Gordon To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never - I repeat - never under any conditions face the facts.
    Ruth Gordon
    American actress (1896 - 1985)
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  • Adolph P. Gouthey To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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  • Lord George Byron To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Wilson Mizner To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Gene Brown Today's opportunities erase yesterday's failures.
    Gene Brown
    American author and editor (1942 - )
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  • John Wayne Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
    John Wayne
    American actor and filmmaker (1907 - 1979)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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