Quotes 81 till 100 of 5062.
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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
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But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.
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Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.
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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
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Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.
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Discontent follows ambition like a shadow.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 135 -
Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
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Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
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For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
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