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Quotes 621 till 640 of 1835.

  • Benjamin Franklin Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Enid Bagnold If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.
    Enid Bagnold
    British writer, playwright (1889 - 1981)
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  • Betsey Johnson If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and her boyfriend likes the way she looks, she'll come back.
    Betsey Johnson
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Niels Bohr If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Marcelene Cox If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents
    Marcelene Cox
    American author
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  • Laurence J. Peter If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • Kirk Kirkpatrick If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss.
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  • Harry F. Banks If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.
    Harry F. Banks
    American producer (1896 - 1915)
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  • Harry Weinberger If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
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  • Archer J. P. Martin If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.
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  • Hannah More If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Boethius If first you rid yourself of hope and fear
    You have dismayed the tyrant's wrath:
    But whosoever quakes in fear or hope,
    Drifting and losing his mastery,
    Has cast away his shield, has left his place,
    And binds the chain with which he will be bound.
    Source: De Consolatione Philosophia
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Ben Affleck If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • William Shakespeare If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Anne Frank If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Alan Thicke If it is a first offense, you ground them and have a talk. The second offense would call for counseling.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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