“ Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.6K
“ O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 735
“ You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch a fish if you don't put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try. ”
- Kathy Seligman- Copy
- 965
“ Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
- 386
“ That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ Every Fern is tucked and set,'Neath coverlet,Downy and soft and warm. ”
- Susan Coolidge- Copy
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“ It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home for Christmas. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
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“ One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats — and one always secretes too much jelly. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ He wrapped himself in quotations — as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
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“ The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ”
- Jeanne Moreau- Copy
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“ Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. ”
- Anthony Burgess- Copy
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“ Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches. ”
- Eugene Ionesco- Copy
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“ Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. ”
- William Osler- Copy
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“ It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask. ”
- Katherine Mansfield- Copy
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“ It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
- 3.8K
“ If depression had settled like a blanket on the minds of most players. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I did a television series in Japan this year, which was really fun, even though it's working with a Japanese crew and I don't speak Japanese. ”
- Alex Cox- Copy
- 978
“ She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
- 410
“ Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought. ”
- Sir William Osler- Copy
- 3.5K
“ It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope. ”
- Tom Hanks- Copy
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