Quotes with courtier-like

Quotes 1981 till 2000 of 3710.

  • Faith Baldwin Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping.
    Faith Baldwin
    American author of romance and fiction (1893 - 1978)
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  • Jean Paul Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • John Milton Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Charles Dickens Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Thomas Dewar Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
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  • Lord Thomas Dewar Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
    Lord Thomas Dewar
    Scottish businessman (1864 - 1930)
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  • Charles Dickens Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Benjamin Rush Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
    Benjamin Rush
    American politician (1745 - 1813)
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  • James Russell Lowell Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • William Wycherley Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
    William Wycherley
    British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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  • Oscar Wilde Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Earl Wilson Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.
    Earl Wilson
    American columnist (1907 - 1987)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henry Ford Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Jean Paul Getty Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Francis Bacon Money is like muck, not good except it is be spread.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • James Baldwin Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Anton Chekhov Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Carine Roitfeld Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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