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464 quotesThere never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Children
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
Want
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Here lies one believe it if you can, who thought an attorney, was a honest man.
Law and Lawyers
Epitaph
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By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
Jesus Christ
Desiderius Erasmus
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'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.
Swearing
Euripides
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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Action
Richard L. Evans
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I was the only one there I never heard of.
Fame
Barry J. Farber
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At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?
Voice
Edgar Fawcett
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A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
Morality
Edna Ferber
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A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.
Poetry and Poets
Eugene Field
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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.
Life and Living
Joanna Field
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.
Punishment
Henry Fielding
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I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
Cities and City Life
W. C. Fields
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
W. C. Fields
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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
Abstinence
W. C. Fields
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I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Carrie Fisher
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Time and Time Management
Ian Fleming
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She learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting into words
Flirting
Corey Ford
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It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Time and Time Management
Henry Ford
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A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
Court
Henry Waldorf Francis
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
Anger
St. Francis De Sales
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I've always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.
Music
Aretha Franklin
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Time and Time Management
Benjamin Franklin
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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Economy and Economics
Benjamin Franklin
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Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
Hatred
Benjamin Franklin
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun