Quotes 141 till 160 of 220.
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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
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People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
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Periodically, at the end of a conversation, someone will ask me, 'Is there something I can do for you?' I used to answer with 'Do something that is helpful to something or someone in my world.'
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
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Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
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Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie.
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
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Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
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Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.
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She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
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Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
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Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable, is made up of civility and falsehood.
Thoughts (1754) -
That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments.
bij Boswell -
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
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