Quotes with long-haired

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  • John Aubrey He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
    John Aubrey
    English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer (1626 - 1697)
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  • Carlo Collodi He had scarcely told the lie when his nose, which was already long, grew at once two fingers longer.
    Pinocchio (1892)
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Horace He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Barry Manilow Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • George Robert Gissing Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Harry S. Truman How do you live a long life? ''Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.''
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • John Ruskin How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Jim Rohn How long should you try? Until.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bob Marley How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Henry George How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.
    Henry George
    American political economist and journalist (1839 - 1897)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Bill Maris Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Leo Rosten Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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