Quotes with much-maligned

Quotes 1621 till 1640 of 1944.

  • Earl Wilson This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt.
    Earl Wilson
    American columnist (1907 - 1987)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Benjamin Franklin Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Oscar Wilde Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little always share.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Albert Einstein Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Anthony Trollope Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Nicholas Breton Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
    Nicholas Breton
    English poet and novelist (1545 - 1626)
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  • John Locke Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Tis much to gain universal admiration; more, universal love.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Joseph Conrad To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Horace Walpole To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.
    Letter to Sir Horace Mann (27-05-1776)
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Francesco Petrarca To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
    Francesco Petrarca
    Italian poet and writer (1304 - 1374)
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  • Butch Trucks To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bill Budge To be honest, I look at my Pinball program and feel that it is old stuff. I could do much better.
    Bill Budge
    American video game programmer and designer (1954 - )
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  • André Maurois To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Adam Smith To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Barry McGuire To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • George Eliot To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • William Penn To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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