Quotes with might-have-been

Quotes 5181 till 5200 of 9541.

  • Alan Alda Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Epictetus Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? is not this also a return?
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Cordell Hull Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.
    Cordell Hull
    American politician, U.S. Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944 (1871 - 1955)
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  • Anatole France Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Erma Bombeck Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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  • Brigham Young Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Brigham Young Never let a day so pass that you will have cause to say, I will live better to-morrow,
    Miscellaneous Journal of Discourses 8:140 (August 5, 1860)
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Gore Vidal Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Margaret Atwood Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
    Margaret Atwood
    Canadian writer, poet, criticus (1939 - )
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  • John Witherspoon Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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  • Basil Rathbone Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.
    Basil Rathbone
    English actor (1892 - 1967)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • John Andrew Holmes Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
    John Andrew Holmes
    American physician and writer (1874 - 1937)
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  • Antonin Artaud Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
    Antonin Artaud
    French producer and actor (1896 - 1948)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Josh Billings Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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