Quotes 461 till 480 of 483.
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Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
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Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!
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You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.
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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.
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You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
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You talk no more of that gay nation now,
Where men adore their wives, and woman's power
Draws reverence from a polished people's softness,
Their husbands' equals, and their lovers' queens;
Free without scandal; wise without restraint;
Their virtue due to nature, not to fear.Zara (1735) Act I, Sc. 1. -
You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.
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You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
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Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
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Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will.
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active -not more happy -nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
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Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
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Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
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