Quotes with four-and-a-half

Quotes 1461 till 1480 of 25414.

  • Jean de la Bruyère A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Edward Gibbon A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • A. P. Herbert A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • Abraham Polonsky A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
    Abraham Polonsky
    American film director, screenwriter and novelist (1910 - 1999)
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Ian Fleming A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
    Ian Fleming
    British author and journalist (1908 - 1964)
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  • Ovid A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Rose Macaulay A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Bram Stoker A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Margaret Fuller A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
    Margaret Fuller
    American writer (1810 - 1850)
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  • Eileen Caddy A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Barbra Streisand A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Ogden Nash A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Philip Roth A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Max Eastman A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
    Max Eastman
    American writer on literature, philosophy and society (1883 - 1969)
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  • Lee Siegel A jokes and a truth are not mutually exclusive. The best jokes are true and the best truths are jokes.
    Laughing Matters Act one: Satire
    Lee Siegel
    American academic (1945 - )
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  • Bill Kurtis A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • B. W. Powe A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
    Mystic Trudeau - The Fire And the Rose Emanations, Destinies, p.54
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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