Quotes with holier-than-thou

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  • Michelangelo What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • William Shakespeare What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Babe Ruth What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Leo Buscaglia What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Bell Hooks What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Edgar Z. Friedenberg What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
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  • E. M. Cioran What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Jerry Gillies What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.
    Jerry Gillies
    American writer
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  • David Ogilvy What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it.
    David Ogilvy
    American businessman, Advertising Expert (1911 - 1999)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith What's more enchanting than the voices of young people, when you can't hear what they say?
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Henry Thomas Buckle Whatever theologians may choose to assert, it is certain that mankind at large has far more virtue than vice.
    History of civilization
    Henry Thomas Buckle
    English historian (1821 - 1862)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Sydney Smith Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Bradley Whitford Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Benjamin Haydon When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Albert Einstein When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - then it's longer than any hour. That's relativity!
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Sacha Guitry When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
    Sacha Guitry
    French playwright, actor and director (ps. of Alexandre Georges- (1885 - 1957)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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