Quotes with two-and-twenty

Quotes 1421 till 1440 of 25590.

  • Robert Hall A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.
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  • Samuel Butler A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • George Ade A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
    George Ade
    American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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  • David Lloyd George A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Branch Rickey A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • George Herbert A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Boutros Boutros-Ghali A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
    Boutros Boutros-Ghali
    Egyptian politician and diplomat (1922 - 2016)
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  • William Butler Yeats A gentleman is a man whose principal ideas are not connected with his personal needs and his personal succes.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Anna Howard Shaw A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Frederick Douglas A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
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  • Betty Friedan A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.
    The Feminine Mystique Ch. 1 The Problem That Has No Name
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • John Selden A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Alexander Pope A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Ben Bernanke A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bela Karolyi A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Bruce Davison A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • John Milton A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Oswald Chambers A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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