Great famous quotes - Page 146

Life

The art of life is to know how t…

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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. Hazlitt, William

Change

The atom, being for all practica…

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The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions. Kabbalah

Beauty

The average man is more interest…

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The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman, any woman, with beautiful legs. Dietrich. Marlene

Criticism

The avocation of assessing the f…

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The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D. Algren, Nelson

Fortune

The bad fortune of the good turn…

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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. Saadi

Life

The basic fact about human exist…

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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. Mencken, H.L.

Beauty

The beautiful are never desolate…

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The beautiful are never desolate, but someone always loves them. Bailey

Beauty

The beautiful seems right by for…

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. Browning, Elizabeth B.

Beauty

The beauty of the world has two …

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The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. Woolf, Virginia

Sleep

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes…

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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. Colton, Charles C.

Work

The beginning is the most import…

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The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato

Wickedness

The belief in a supernatural sou…

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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Conrad, Joseph