Quotes with good-fortune

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  • Oscar Wilde It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Eddington It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Jerome K. Jerome It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Ben Jonson It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • E. B. White It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.
    The picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.
    Letter (8 November 1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Archibald Alexander It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Aristotle It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Plautus It is easy to rule over the good.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Pliny the Elder It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
    Pliny the Elder
    Roman author, naturalist and natural (23 - 79)
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  • Ariel Durant It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
    Ariel Durant
    Russian-born American researcher and writer (1898 - 1981)
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  • Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
    Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
    English author and humorists (1881 - 1975)
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  • Salvador Dali It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • Robert E. Lee It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Carine Roitfeld It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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