Quotes with one-verse

Quotes 2521 till 2540 of 5921.

  • Seneca Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • B. F. Skinner Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Arlie Russell Hochschild Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done.
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  • Asa Gray Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Oscar Wilde Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Washington Irving Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Ardal O'Hanlon Marriage is when two people are joined together to become one desperately boring person.
    Ardal O'Hanlon
    Irish comedian and actor (1965 - )
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  • Sydney Smith Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Joe Murray Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.
    Joe Murray
    American animator (1961 - )
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  • Henry Lewis Stimson Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps. Joe Murray The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
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  • Arthur Godfrey Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.
    Arthur Godfrey
    American radio and television (1903 - 1983)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North Pole, South Pole, mountains and lots of ice. No one is going to live on Venus; no one is going to live on Jupiter.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Barney Frank Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Maturity: among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • David Gemmell May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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