Quotes with not-so-funny

Quotes 3081 till 3100 of 10331.

  • Philip Roth I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Rose Kennedy I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
    Rose Kennedy
    American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy (1890 - 1995)
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  • Samuel Johnson I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • P. Henry I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
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  • Patrick Henry I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
    Patrick Henry
    American attorney, planter, and orator (1736 - 1799)
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  • Oscar Wilde I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in goal is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Albert Einstein I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Samuel Johnson I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Voltaire I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Edmund Burke I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Armistead Maupin I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him what it is like being partnered with a celebrity. Precisely because it suggested that he had no value.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Robert McCloskey I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant
    Robert McCloskey
    American writer (1914 - 2003)
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  • Oscar Wilde I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I know: If you're looking down at Earth, you're looking through an atmosphere that has a bit of haze in many places and not just occasional clouds.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Jan Carlzon I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.
    Jan Carlzon
    Swedish businessman (1941 - )
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  • Emily Dickinson I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Ann Beattie I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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