Quotes with three-fourths

Quotes 221 till 240 of 424.

  • Edward Everett Hale Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
    Edward Everett Hale
    American author, historian, and Unitarian minister (0 - 1909)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Barry Humphries New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Buddy Hackett Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.
    Buddy Hackett
    American actor and comedian (1924 - 2003)
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  • Plautus No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Philip Crosby No one can remember more than three points.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • S. I. Hayakawa Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
    S. I. Hayakawa
    Canada-American Senator (1902 - 1992)
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  • Casey Stengel Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Earl Wilson Nowadays people can be divided into three classes - the haves the have-nots and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves
    Earl Wilson
    American columnist (1907 - 1987)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • William Shakespeare O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bruce Babbitt Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Bobby Rahal Obviously it's critical that the three cars are able to contribute to the program. I think that certainly has given much of the reason as to why we did so well at Indy over the last several years.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Alan Moore Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't actually hold up anything in the world and say: 'this is Marxism'.
    Alan Moore
    English writer (1953 - )
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  • Edwin P. Whipple Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.
    Edwin P. Whipple
    American essay writer (1819 - 1886)
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  • Harlan Miller Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
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  • Buffalo Bill On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
    The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography (1978 edition), U of Nebraska Press
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bernard Malamud Once you've got some words looking back at you, you can take two or three or throw them away and look for others.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Elbert Hubbard One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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