Quotes with stain

  • It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
  • Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.
  • After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

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  • Bob Woodward After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Coleman Dowell It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
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  • Henry Ward Beecher It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bill Bryson Much of the tablecloth was a series of grey smudges outlined in a large, irregular patch of yellow that looked distressingly like a urine stain.
    Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Dorothy Parker Razors pain you, rivers are damp, acids stain you and drugs cause cramp, guns aren't lawful, nooses give, gas smells awful, - you might as well live.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Dorothy Parker Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you; and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Beilby Porteus Twas not enough By subtle fraud to snatch a single life; Puny impiety! whole kingdoms fell To sate the lust of power: more horrid still, The foulest stain and scandal of our nature, Became its boast. One murder made a villain; Millions a hero.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Berthold Auerbach When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • John Gay But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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