Quotes with not-so-funny

Quotes 3041 till 3060 of 10331.

  • William Shakespeare I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Umberto Eco I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Calvin Coolidge I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Astrid Lindgren I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
    Astrid Lindgren
    Swedish children's book and novelist (1907 - 2002)
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  • Anna Held I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Epicurus I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Edmund Burke I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Anthony Trollope I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Brooks Atkinson I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Mark Twain I have not a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Joan Didion I have not been the witness I wanted to be.
    A Book of Common Prayer (1977) 272
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Emily Brontë I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whatever one was going to be was all prepared before that.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Thomas Jefferson I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Angelina Grimké I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.
    Angelina Grimké
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Arlen Specter I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I come to that bridge. I'm not going to jump off the bridge until I come to it.
    Arlen Specter
    American lawyer, author, and politician (1930 - 2012)
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  • Alfred Nobel I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
    Alfred Nobel
    Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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  • Leonard Cohen I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Lord George Byron I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Otto Von Bismarck I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
    Otto Von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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