Quotes with much-maligned

Quotes 121 till 140 of 1944.

  • Elbert Hubbard A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general
    Recollected Words of Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bruce Sterling A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.
    Bruce Sterling
    American science fiction author (1954 - )
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Chester Nimitz A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
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  • Samuel Johnson A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Eric Hoffer A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bill McKibben A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Georges Bernanos A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • William E. Vaughan A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.
    William E. Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Lord Chesterfield A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Machiavelli A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Sir John Lubbock A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer A word too much always defeats its purpose.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Philip Larkin Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
    Philip Larkin
    English poet, novelist and librarian (1922 - 1985)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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