Quotes with one-liners

Quotes 2121 till 2140 of 5903.

  • Adlai Stevenson II It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • George Santayana It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • David Hume It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • A. J. Liebling It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Alice James It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Seneca It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Francis Bacon It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Barney Frank It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Sir William Blackstone It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer
    Sir William Blackstone
    English jurist, judge and politician
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  • W. Blackstone It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.
    W. Blackstone
     
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  • Vincent van Gogh It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
    Vincent van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Bhagavad Gita It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Carl von Clausewitz It is better to go on striking in the same direction than to move one's forces this way and that.
    Source: On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Bryant H. McGill It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • John Cage It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ''culture.''
    John Cage
    American composer and music (1912 - 1992)
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  • J. Cage It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of `culture'.
    J. Cage
     
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  • George Washington It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Abraham Lincoln It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Francis H. Bradley It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • George Macdonald It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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