Quotes with nine-and-a-half

Quotes 1741 till 1760 of 25371.

  • Henry Fielding A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • John Gay A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Brad Feld A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Bootsy Collins A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Plutarch A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Sir Walter Scott A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Curtis Carlson A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, ''I want to sell 10 accounts this week,'' and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, ''Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.
    Curtis Carlson
    American businessman and technologist (1945 - )
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  • Peter McArthur A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
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  • Annie Dillard A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Maxwell Planck A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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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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  • Al Goldstein A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • William Cowper A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Boris Yeltsin A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.
    Source: Speech at a summit of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Istanbul, Turkey, as quoted in BBC World Service (19 November 1999)
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Camille Paglia A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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