Quotes 3141 till 3160 of 5916.
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
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One good deed, dying
slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.The Winter's Tale -
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
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One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
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One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.
Trenchtown Rock -
One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.
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One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
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One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
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One has occasionally to pocket one’s pride and readjust one’s ideas.
Death in the Clouds (1935) ch. 25 -
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a sense of history. If history is learned, then it doesn't have to repeat itself over generations.
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One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats -and one always secretes too much jelly.
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One hires lawyers as one hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
The Question of Max Ch. 5 (1976) -
One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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