Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 1123.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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[Speaking of Reggie Jackson and George Steinbrenner:] The two of them deserve each other. One's a born liar, the other's convicted.
Source: New York Times, 24 July 1978 -
A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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Alliance. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
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Childhood: The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
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How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
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One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
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Peace: a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary -
The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
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The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.
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