Quotes with lesser-known

Quotes 341 till 348 of 348.

• A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

  Fred A. Allen
  American comic (1894 - 1956)
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• A man is known by the company he organizes.

  Ambrose Bierce
  American writer (1842 - 1914)
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• After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

  Henry Louis Mencken
  American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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• All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.

  Woodrow Wilson
  American president (1856 - 1924)
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• All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

  Voltaire
  French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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• Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

  Claude Bernard
  French physiologist (1813 - 1878)
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• Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  French writer (1900 - 1944)
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• Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

  Freya Stark
  British travel story writer (1893 - 1993)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• extraordinary
• well-known
• quotations
• estimation
• excepting
• frightens

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