Quotes 521 till 540 of 6249.
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After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
Source: The Remains of the Day (2009) 244 -
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
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After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.
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After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Source: On his 85th birthday. UPI News Report, August 20, 1955― Bernard M. Baruch
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Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?
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Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
Source: Lady Windermere’s Fan (1893) First act -
Ah, yes, I wrote the ''Purple Cow'' - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you, anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it.
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Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.
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All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
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