Quotes with well-meaning

Quotes 61 till 80 of 1547.

  • Louis Dudek There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.
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  • Aristotle Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ben Jonson To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Voltaire To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Molière We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Aristotle Well begun is half done.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Well done, is better than well said.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Harry S. Truman Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Charlotte Whitton Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
    Charlotte Whitton
    Canadian feminist and mayor (1896 - 1975)
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  • David Lehman Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
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  • Horace Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Carolina Herrera You can be very feminine and be a leader. Christine Lagarde, she's very chic and she dresses very well, and she's a woman. And she has a lot of power.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Ken Kesey ''I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower.'' ''Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!''
    Ken Kesey
    American writer (1935 - 2001)
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  • William Congreve 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Bill Watterson (Hobbes:) Do you think there's a God? (Calvin:) Well, somebody's out to get me.
    Bill Watterson
    American cartoonist (1958 - )
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  • Alice Duer Miller A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Bobby Darin A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • John Adams A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Stanley Kubrick A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
    Stanley Kubrick
    American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1928 - 1999)
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