Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

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  • Calvin Coolidge Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Augustus Hare Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Adam McKay Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
    Adam McKay
    American filmmaker (1968 - )
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  • Samuel Beckett Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • David Hare Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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  • Jeremy Taylor Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Plutarch Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Aurelius Clemens Prudentius Nothing is higher than the love of truth.
    Aurelius Clemens Prudentius
    Roman Christian poet
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Thales of Miletus Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
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  • Jerome K. Jerome Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • George Washington Carver Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Bill Ayers Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
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  • Aphra Behn Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
    Aphra Behn
    English playwright, poet and translator (1640 - 1689)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.
    A Distant Mirror Enguerrand VII de Coucy, quoted on p. 570
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Samuel Johnson Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Winston Churchill Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Albert Camus Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Albert Einstein Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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