Quotes with dead-ends

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  • John Gay A woman's friendship ever ends in love.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Robert Frost A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Aristotle First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Bu'' is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the ''Buts'' that could be said.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Groucho Marx Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Ashleigh Brilliant Being dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school.
    Ashleigh Brilliant
    American author and cartoonist (1933 - )
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  • David Mitchell Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Groucho Marx Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • St. John Chrysostom Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
    St. John Chrysostom
    Early Church Father and archbishop
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • W. M. Lewis The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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  • Ezra Pound There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Voltaire Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
    Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    American Poet, Journalist (1850 - 1919)
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  • Ruth Ross A ''should'' is a ''have to'' with no teeth; it is dead energy.
    Ruth Ross
    New Zealand historian (1920 - )
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  • Billy Wilder A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
    Culture and Commitment, 1929-1945 (1973)
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Carl Sagan A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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