Quotes with holier-than-thou

Quotes 3541 till 3560 of 4321.

  • Martin Luther King There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Homer There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Mark Twain There is nothing sadder than a young pessimist.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Han Suyin There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
    Han Suyin
    Chinese-European writer (ps. by Elizabeth Comber) (1916 - 2012)
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  • George Santayana There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Samuel Johnson There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Andrew Jackson There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Lord Chesterfield There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Mark Caine There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
    Mark Caine
    American writer
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  • Eugène Ionesco There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to ''realize'' myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have ''succeeded,'' this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is ''realizable.'' Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Ansel Adams There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Thomas Carlyle There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Henry David Thoreau There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • John Stuart Mill There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Charles Sanders Pierce There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
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  • Bob Dylan There is one thing I know though I'm younger than you
    Even Jesus would not forgive what you do
    The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Victor Hugo There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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