Quotes with wears

  • Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.
  • The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

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  • Fred A. Allen A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Karl Kraus A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • William Shakespeare Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Austin O'Malley A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Henry Fielding All nature wears one universal grin.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Anton Chekhov Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Josh Billings As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bruce Vilanch As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.
    Bruce Vilanch
    American comedy writer, songwriter and actor (1948 - )
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  • William Hazlitt Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Lord George Byron For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Leo Tolstoy He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Walter Benjamin He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
    The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Anna Quindlen I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Sarah Orne Jewett It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
    Sarah Orne Jewett
    American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849 - 1909)
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  • Robert W. Service It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
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  • Juvenal Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy, another wears a crown.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Edward Hoagland Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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