Quotes with old-world

Quotes 2921 till 2940 of 3762.

  • Miguel de Cervantes There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Bhagavad Gita There is no purifier like knowledge in this world:
    time makes man find himself in his heart.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • David Starr Jordan There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
    David Starr Jordan
    American educator, eugenicist, and peace activist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Kathleen Norris There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
    Kathleen Norris
    American poet and author (born 1947) (1947 - )
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  • Miguel de Unamuno There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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  • Diane Ackerman There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
    Diane Ackerman
    American poet, essayist, savage and naturalist (1948 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Jean Baudrillard There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Martin Luther King There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth losing a job for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Bing Crosby There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.
    Bing Crosby
    American singer, comedian and actor (1903 - 1977)
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  • Mark Twain There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Alexander Herzen There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Agnes Repplier There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Seneca There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Euripides There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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