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Quotes 681 till 690 of 690.

  • Brendan Behan A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles... it takes your mind off the cost of living.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Sacha Guitry A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
    Sacha Guitry
    French playwright, actor and director (ps. of Alexandre Georges- (1885 - 1957)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
    Source: Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Denis Diderot I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I start where the last man left off.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Andre Breton Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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