Quotes with nose-guard

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  • Billy Corgan Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • William Shakespeare Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Frank Moore Colby Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Barry McCaffrey Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • James A. Froude The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Marcus Aurelius The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Bayard Taylor The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Winston Churchill The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Josh Billings There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Liu Shao-Ch'I There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.
    Liu Shao-Ch'I
     
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  • Caroline Shaw There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds of music together. We do pop studio sessions, and we'll also play John Cage and more avant-garde work. We're developing a language of music that comes with a lot of different styles, different kinds of work.
    Caroline Shaw
    American violinist, singer and composer (1982 - )
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  • Bruce Parry They loved that I put a bone through my nose. They loved that I had my penis pushed back inside me.
    Source: As quoted in Do you really want to be in our tribe? in The Telegraph (1 March 2005)
    Bruce Parry
     
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  • Little Richard They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again.
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  • Benjamin Franklin They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • William Butler Yeats Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • William Butler Yeats Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • John Gay Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Arthur Herzog To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness.
    Arthur Herzog
    American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist (1927 - 2010)
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