Quotes with might-have-been

Quotes 4201 till 4220 of 9541.

  • Ben Jonson It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Alice James It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Cecil Parkinson It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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  • Mark Twain It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Garry Kasparov It is better to have a bad plan than no plan.
    How Life Imitates Chess (2007)
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • James Thurber It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Groucho Marx It is better to have loft and lost than to never have loft at all.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Edgar Saltus It is better to have loved your wife than never to have loved at all.
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  • Baltasar Gracián It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Bryant H. McGill It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Mark Twain It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Camille Paglia It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Edgar Quinet It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • James Baldwin It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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