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Let them hate, so long as they fear.
[ Power ]
Accius
Accius books
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81 votes
There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
[ Inflation ]
Franklin P. Adams
Franklin P. Adams books
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99 votes
They know enough who know how to learn.
[ Education ]
Henry Brooks Adams
Henry Brooks Adams books
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94 votes
Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
[ Expectation ]
Aesop
Aesop books
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80 votes
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
[ Adversity ]
Aesop
Aesop books
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99 votes
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
[ Failure ]
Thomas B. Aldrich
Thomas B. Aldrich books
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68 votes
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
[ Anger ]
William R. Alger
William R. Alger books
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81 votes
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
[ Exercise ]
Fred A. Allen
Fred A. Allen books
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91 votes
Treat employees like partners, and they act like partners.
[ Business ]
Fred A. Allen
Fred A. Allen books
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70 votes
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
[ Circumstance ]
James Allen
James Allen books
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72 votes
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
[ Change ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frederic Amiel books
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86 votes
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
[ Peace ]
Martin Amis
Martin Amis books
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72 votes
You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
[ Heroes and Heroism ]
C. D. Andrews
C. D. Andrews books
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88 votes
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
[ Enemies ]
Antisthenes
Antisthenes books
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Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
[ Enemies ]
Antisthenes
Antisthenes books
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Serve your enemies for they first find out your faults
[ Enemies ]
Antisthenes
Antisthenes books
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82 votes
Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
[ Men and Women ]
Marcel Archard
Marcel Archard books
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82 votes
You live with your thoughts -- so be careful what they are.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
Eva Arrington
Eva Arrington books
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81 votes
I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me.
[ Army and Navy ]
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley books
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78 votes
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
[ Risk ]
Mary Kay Ash
Mary Kay Ash books
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90 votes
We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.
[ Customers ]
Laura Ashley
Laura Ashley books
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56 votes
I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
[ Churches ]
Brooks Atkinson
Brooks Atkinson books
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108 votes
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
[ Opera ]
W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden books
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89 votes
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
[ Names ]
W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden books
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76 votes
Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
Azarias
Azarias books
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56 votes
Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours
[ Possibilities ]
Richard Bach
Richard Bach books
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83 votes
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
[ Belief ]
Richard Bach
Richard Bach books
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74 votes
Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
[ Consistency ]
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon books
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78 votes
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
[ Ability ]
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon books
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59 votes
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
[ Doubt ]
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon books
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89 votes
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
[ Nationalities and Nationalism ]
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon books
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70 votes
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
[ Discovery ]
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon books
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77 votes
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
[ Adaptability ]
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon books
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78 votes
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
[ Philosophers and Philosophy ]
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon books
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81 votes
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
[ Forgiveness ]
Josiah Bailey
Josiah Bailey books
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59 votes
People see God every day; they just don't recognize Him.
[ God ]
Pearl Bailey
Pearl Bailey books
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77 votes
People can cry much easier than they can change.
[ Change ]
James Baldwin
James Baldwin books
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81 votes
Ever notice that people never say It's only a game when they're winning?
[ Winners and Winning ]
Ivern Ball
Ivern Ball books
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85 votes
You see much more of your children once they leave home.
[ Children ]
Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball books
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75 votes
Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them.
[ Fashion ]
Bettina Ballard
Bettina Ballard books
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87 votes
Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
[ Government ]
Joy Baluch
Joy Baluch books
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89 votes
I don't want anything I don't deserve, [but] if they offer me more money, I'm not stupid.
[ Stupidity ]
Antonio Banderas
Antonio Banderas books
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76 votes
Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
[ Feminism ]
Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot books
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79 votes
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
[ Individuality ]
Ethel Barrett
Ethel Barrett books
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85 votes
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
[ Death and Dying ]
Sir James M. Barrie
Sir James M. Barrie books
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68 votes
The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
[ Computers ]
Dave Barry
Dave Barry books
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I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
[ Audiences ]
Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore books
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81 votes
If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.
[ Thoughts and Thinking ]
George Barzan
George Barzan books
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81 votes
As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.
[ Past ]
Gerald Barzan
Gerald Barzan books
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79 votes
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
[ Wisdom ]
Matsuo Basho
Matsuo Basho books
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61 votes