Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

Quotes 3981 till 4000 of 4584.

  • Francis Bacon Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Truth comes home to the mind so naturally that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Lord George Byron Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Mark Twain Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Leo Rosten Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Ben Jonson Truth is the trial of itself
    And needs no other touch,
    And purer than the purest gold,
    Refine it ne'er so much.
    The Touchstone of Truth
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Hunter S. Thompson Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • William Penn Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Turtles can tell more about the roads than hares.
    Sand and Foam: A Book of Aphorisms
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Robert Frost Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.
    The Road Not Taken
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • E. M. Cioran Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Charles Péguy Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
    Charles Péguy
    French writer and poet (1873 - 1914)
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  • Bill Delahunt Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001.
    Bill Delahunt
    American lawyer and politician (1941 - )
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  • Henry James Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Ben Jonson Underneath this stone doth lie
    As much beauty as could die;
    Which in life did harbor give
    To more virtue than doth live.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio CXXIV, Epitaph on Elizabeth, Lady H—, lines 3-6.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Denis Waitley Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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