Quotes with height

  • Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.
  • How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

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  • Cato the Elder It is sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Mark Twain A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Novalis Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Casey Stengel All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • William Somerset Maugham A man's height gives him a different outlook on his environment and so changes his character.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Billy Bragg All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Robert Frost An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Bill Rancic Dear Chicago, when I wake up in the morning and see your skyline - the terra cotta of the Wrigley Building, the height of the Willis Tower, the shiny sides of my beloved Trump Tower - I know I'm home. I feel a certain energy walking between your spires, but recognize that what makes you special to me is that my roots are here.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Robert Frost Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • August Wilson I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Anthony Holden I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Jean Cocteau If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Pythagoras If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Ban Ki-moon In 2009, at the height of the global economic crisis, it was clear that we were seeing something new: the impacts of the crisis were flowing across borders at unprecedented velocity.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Francois René de Chateaubriand Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.
    Francois René de Chateaubriand
    French poet, writer and politician (1768 - 1848)
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  • Thomas Szasz Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Ben Hecht Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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