Quotes with have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves

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  • Jeremy Collier How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Abraham Lincoln How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Bradley Denton How many members of the fleshbound masses do you think will listen to him? He's making sense, and they don't respond to that.
    Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991)
    Bradley Denton
    American science fiction author (1958 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Bill Hicks How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again?...Seventy percent. What the fuck? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?
    Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Joseph Joubert How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Anna Held How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler How much abuse is a fighter expected to endure before he can be allowed to show some concern for his own welfare? Anyone who has been around fighters knows they all share the same secret: They are more afraid of embarrassment and humiliation than injury. Do fans and writers use this fact against them in what we celebrate or criticize?
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Blaise Pascal How much greater confidence has an advocate, retained with a large fee, in the justice of his cause! How much better does his bold manner make his case appear to the judges, deceived as they are by appearances! How ludicrous is reason, blown with a breath in every direction!
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Thomas Jefferson How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened?
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Marcus Aurelius How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Anne Brontë How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Terence How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • William Shakespeare How poor are they that have no patience.
    Othello (1622)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William E. Rothschild How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
    William E. Rothschild
    American author (1933 - )
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  • Carlo Collodi How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!
    Adventures of Pinocchio. Ediz. Illustrata (2012 edition), Edimedia
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • William Shakespeare How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
    To have a thankless child!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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