Quotes 301 till 320 of 3841.
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Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take.
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Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.
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After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
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After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
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After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.
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After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess.
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After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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Ah, but it is incredible how often things force one to do the thing one would like to do.
Source: Death in the Clouds (1935) -
Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
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Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
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Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
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Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.
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Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
Source: On War (1832) -
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
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