Quotes with good-breeding

Quotes 2541 till 2560 of 2790.

  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Ernest Hemingway What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Al Yankovic What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
    Al Yankovic
    American musician (1959 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry David Thoreau What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bertolt Brecht What rapture, oh, it is to know
    A good thing when you see it
    And having seen a good thing, oh,
    What rapture 'tis to flee it.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bee Wilson What strikes me, the more I cook, is that the best recipes are ones where the basic anatomy is so sound it will survive multiple adjustments. When a recipe has good bones, you can change the seasoning, double the garlic, swap lime for lemon, and it still turns out delicious.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Brendan Behan What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
    The Complete Plays
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Barbara Jordan What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Bertolt Brecht What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.
    Mother Courage and Her Children The Sergeant, in Scene 1
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Franklin Pierce Adams What this country needs is a good five cent cigar.
    Franklin Pierce Adams
    American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960)
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  • Arthur Laffer What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Benny Andersson What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on.
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  • Thomas Carlyle What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Robert Stone What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.
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  • Charles E. Wilson What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.
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  • Bill Moyers What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • G. Grossmith What's the good of a home if you are never in it.
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  • A. Brisbane Whatever good there is in small boys is usually based upon their admiration for girls of their own age.
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