Quotes of Seemly - somelinesforyou

“ When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland. ”

- Tony Blair

“ I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God. ”

- Alan Keyes

“ The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down. ”

- Errol Flynn

“ If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency.... Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough. ”

- Harold Macmillan

“ When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found. ”

- Eminem

“ I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe. ”

- John Hurt

“ I think this is a good example of the township taking a proactive stance rather than reaction,... I think this is an excellent example of what we should be doing to take the township into the future. ”

- Perry Miller

“ There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. ”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“ The outstanding thing about my father to me anyway was just what a good and decent person he was. He was good and decent to everybody. ”

- Ron Reagan

“ Bring me a hundred reeds of decent growth,/ To make a pipe for my capacious mouth. ”

- John Gay

“ But they sense... that with just a change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life,... They know we can do better. And they want that choice. ”

- Barack Obama

“ The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals. ”

- Sydney J. Harris

“ I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three. ”

- Alexander Payne

“ Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake, but as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts. ”

- Mary Ellen Chase

“ I don't deny that an odd man here and there, if he's caught young and trained up proper, and if his mother has spanked him well beforehand, may turn out a decent being. ”

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

“ If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough. ”

- Harold Macmillan

“ A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live. ”

- Jean Baptiste Moliere

“ No decent career was ever founded on a public. ”

- Unknown

“ No decent career was ever founded on a public. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ We are decent 99 percent of the time, when we could easily be vile. ”

- R. W. Riis

“ One must think like a hero in order to behave like a decent human being. ”

- May Sarton

“ I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal. ”

- Groucho Marx

“ Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country. ”

- Horace

“ If you don't believe in your product, of if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work. ”

- Jay Levinson
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