Quotes with twenty-six

Quotes 121 till 140 of 240.

  • Desiderius Erasmus Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason - you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Fred A. Allen Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Camille Paglia Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Charles Dickens Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Burt Shavitz Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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  • Andy Rooney Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Fred A. Allen Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Will Durant Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the bank for emergencies? Sure. Do you? Probably not.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Walter Matthau My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more.
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  • Alexander Calder My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six.
    Alexander Calder
    American sculptor (0 - 1976)
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  • Bob Hope My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty-one.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Bettie Page My favorite actress of all times is Bette Davis in Dark Victory. I have seen it six or seven times, and I still cry.
    Bettie Page
    American model (1923 - 2008)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new one said, 'Why aren't you using your family name? It's a real attention-grabber.' I worried, 'How much is it going to cost to put my name in lights?' But then I decided that's not my problem.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Brian Austin Green My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.
    Brian Austin Green
    American actor, rapper and producer (1973 - )
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  • Bode Miller My mom played the recorder. But not having electricity, we had minimal exposure to music. As I got a little older, we had Walkmans and things that were battery-powered, but it would have been nice to be growing up in the iPod era. A tape only has six songs on a side.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Bruce Vilanch My skirt fell off on stage during a performance of Hairspray on Broadway, revealing my fat suit over my own natural fat suit. I turned to the audience and said, 'Now you know why I spent six years in a square.'
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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