Quotes 321 till 340 of 726.
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Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
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Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
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Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.
Pensees (1669) -
Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.
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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.
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Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?
Bobby Darin
American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973) -
Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some Gods would dream of.
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Men do less than they ought unless they do all that they can.
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Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
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Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
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Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered. The basic mechanics of conception require action in the male but nothing more than passive receptivity in the female.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
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Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.
On War (1832) -
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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