Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 2621 till 2640 of 12035.

  • Robert Frost Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
    And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Benito Mussolini Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.
    As quoted in Garlic and Oil : Food and Politics in Italy
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Bill Camp Fortunately, I get asked to play - regardless of how big or small they are - some really interesting people who are part of great stories. So, as an actor, there's really nothing better.
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  • Seneca Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Mark Twain Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Brooke Burke Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Voltaire Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.
    The Fractal Geometry of Nature
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Adam Michnik France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • Charles de Gaulle France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Oscar Wilde Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once!
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • C. S. Lewis Frantic administration of panaceas to the world is certainly discouraged by the reflection that this present might be the world's last night; sober work for the future, within the limits of ordinary morality and prudence, is not.
    The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Arthur C. Brooks Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Free trade is not a principle; it is an expedient.
    On Import Duties (25-04-1843)
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Edmund Burke Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Herbert Hoover Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Carl Sandburg Freedom is baffling:
    men having it often
    know not they have it
    till it is gone and
    they no longer have it.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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