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917 quotesTragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
Tragedies
D. H. Lawrence
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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
God
Irving Layton
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I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Insurance Agents
Stephen B. Leacock
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Critics and Criticism
Fran Lebowitz
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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
Age and Aging
Tom Lehrer
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Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Language
Claude Levi-Strauss
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
Marriage
C. S. Lewis
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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
Courage
Sinclair Lewis
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
Learning
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Fashion
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals.
Advantage
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
Opinions
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Marriage
Abraham Lincoln
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Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.
Work
Abraham Lincoln
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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Courage
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
Courage
Charles A. Lindbergh
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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
Life and Living
Art Linkletter
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Risk
Walter Lippmann
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Language is the inventory of human experience.
Language
L. W. Lockhart
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Anyone seen on a bus after age thirty has been a failure in life.
Failure
Duchess Loelia
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No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.
Language
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Age and Aging
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
Advantage
Sophia Loren
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The average person thinks he isn't.
Thoughts and Thinking
Larry Lorenzoni
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I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.
Uncategorised
F. L. Lucan
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun