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464 quotesWas this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?
Faces
Christopher Marlowe
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I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
Weddings
Groucho Marx
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She [Eleanor Roosevelt] got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.
Revenge
Ralph McGill
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I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
Self-confidence
Lord Melbourne
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If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.
Reform
Lord Melbourne
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
Literature
Herman Melville
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
Quotations
H. L. Mencken
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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
Men and Women
H. L. Mencken
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In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
Creation
Henry Miller
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I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
Doctors
Jonathan Miller
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No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
Excuses
A. A. Milne
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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.
Work
Thomas S. Monson
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The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.
Daughters
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
Adaptability
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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God never made a promise that was too good to be true.
Promises
Dwight L. Moody
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Theology
Christopher Morley
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If winning (success) was easy, then everybody would be doing it. It's the hard that makes it great!
Winners and Winning
A League of Their Own Movie
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Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
Television
Malcolm Muggeridge
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The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
Servants
Hector Hugh Munro
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The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
Friends and Friendship
Hector Hugh Munro
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Writers and Writing
Vladimir Nabokov
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After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Religion
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
Praise
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.
Spirit and Spirituality
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Plato was a bore.
Philosophers and Philosophy
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun