Quotes with makes

  • Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
  • That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.
  • Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
  • I'm glad we've been bombed. It makes me feel I can look the East End in the face.
  • If I were asked for a one line answer to the question' What makes a woman good in bed?' I would say, 'A man who is good in bed.
  • Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
  • It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
  • One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
  • A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
  • One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
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  • Lana Turner A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
    Lana Turner
    American actress (1921 - 1995)
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  • Greg Anderson Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Henry Ford Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • John Howe Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
    John Howe
    Canadian-French illustrator
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  • Henry Ford A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
    News Journal (3 August 1965)
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Robert Frost A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • John Patrick Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
    The Teahouse of the August Moon act I, scene i, p. 6
    John Patrick
    English playwright and screenwriter (1905 - 1995)
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  • Walt Disney The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Freeman Dyson A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • Sun Tzu The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Katharine Hepburn To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Thomas Paine A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • William Shenstone A poet that fails in writing becomes often a morose critic. The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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  • Charlotte Brontë A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • William James Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Winston Churchill Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Paine Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Christianity makes suffering contagious.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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