Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • Confucius Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Caroline Knapp Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Helen Rowland Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ann Beattie Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Richard Burton False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
    Richard Burton
    Welsh actor (1925 - 1984)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Vicki Baum Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
    Vicki Baum
    Austrian writer (1888 - 1960)
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  • Brantley Gilbert Fame and money and all that - you hear people say it a lot, but they don't mean a thing to me.
    Brantley Gilbert
    American country music singer, songwriter (1985 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it we must direct our lives in such a way as to please the fancy of men, avoiding what they dislike and seeking what is pleasing to them.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Henry Miller Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Francis Bacon Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Davy Crockett Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
    Davy Crockett
    American folk hero, soldier, and politician (1786 - 1836)
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  • Julie Burchill Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • Marilyn Monroe Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Mark Twain Familiarity breeds contempt; and children.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Begum Aga Khan Families are the best place to learn and practice mutual tolerance and acceptance.
    Interview with FOCUS Magazine, July 2005
    Begum Aga Khan
    French Egyptian artist and last wife of Sultan Aga Khan III (1906 - 2000)
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  • Brad Henry Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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