Quotes with worth-while

Quotes 481 till 500 of 1020.

  • Karl Kraus News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Wyndham Lewis No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Casey Stengel No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Enoch Powell No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
    Enoch Powell
    British politician and classicist (1912 - 1998)
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  • Edward Dahlberg No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Robert Southey No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • O. Schreiner No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Iris Murdoch No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Napoleon Hill No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Christopher Morley No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson No man is useless while he has a friend.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton No man knows he is young while he is young.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt No man needs sympathy because he has to work. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Tallulah Bankhead No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.
    Tallulah Bankhead
    American actress (1902 - 1968)
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  • Mario Vargas Llosa No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
    Mario Vargas Llosa
    Peruvian writer, politician, journalist and essayist (1936 - )
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  • Ellen Glasgow No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
    Ellen Glasgow
    American writer (1873 - 1945)
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  • Cyril Connolly No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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