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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
[ Music ]
Joseph Addison
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86 votes
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
[ Stardom ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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82 votes
We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
[ Seriousness ]
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison books
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80 votes
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
[ Posterity ]
George Ade
George Ade books
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66 votes
I think being funny is not anyone's first choice.
[ Comedy and Comedians ]
Woody Allen
Woody Allen books
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68 votes
Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
[ Order ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frederic Amiel books
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77 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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74 votes
Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
[ Education ]
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou books
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51 votes
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
[ Life, Lust For ]
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou books
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77 votes
It's fun being a kid.
[ Children ]
Bradford Arthur Angier
Bradford Arthur Angier books
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43 votes
It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth.
[ Lies and Lying ]
Robert Armstrong
Robert Armstrong books
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68 votes
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
[ Games ]
W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden books
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75 votes
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
[ Truth ]
Richard Bach
Richard Bach books
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70 votes
Man is an imagining being.
[ Imagination ]
Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard books
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40 votes
No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
[ Money ]
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon books
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51 votes
A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority.
[ Minorities ]
Leo Baeck
Leo Baeck books
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69 votes
I have a fear of being boring.
[ Bores and Boredom ]
Christian Bale
Christian Bale books
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46 votes
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
[ Hatred ]
Hosea Ballou
Hosea Ballou books
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48 votes
Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.
[ Government ]
Joy Baluch
Joy Baluch books
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77 votes
I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.
[ Communication ]
John Banham
John Banham books
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70 votes
I leave before being left. I decide.
[ Love Ended ]
Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot books
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54 votes
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
[ Strength ]
Sir James M. Barrie
Sir James M. Barrie books
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53 votes
What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?
[ Work ]
Gerald Barzan
Gerald Barzan books
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44 votes
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
[ Bores and Boredom ]
Sir Cecil Beaton
Sir Cecil Beaton books
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69 votes
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
[ Laughter ]
Pierre De Beaumarchais
Pierre De Beaumarchais books
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46 votes
Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.
[ Freedom ]
Ernest Benn
Ernest Benn books
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69 votes
When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
[ Happiness ]
Edward Frederic Benson
Edward Frederic Benson books
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55 votes
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
[ Autobiography ]
John Berger
John Berger books
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74 votes
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
[ Glamour ]
John Berger
John Berger books
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79 votes
Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
[ Men and Women ]
John Berger
John Berger books
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65 votes
The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
[ Success ]
Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin books
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67 votes
Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.
[ Seasons ]
Al Bernstein
Al Bernstein books
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49 votes
Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.
[ Law and Lawyers ]
Otto Von Bismarck
Otto Von Bismarck books
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57 votes
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
[ Age and Aging ]
Alan Bleasdale
Alan Bleasdale books
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49 votes
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
[ Fear ]
Napoleon Bonaparte
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45 votes
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
[ Confusion ]
Daniel Boone
Daniel Boone books
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49 votes
Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
[ Quotations ]
Christian Nevell Bovee
Christian Nevell Bovee books
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58 votes
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
[ Eyes ]
Christian Nevell Bovee
Christian Nevell Bovee books
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67 votes
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
[ Bores and Boredom ]
Gerald Brenan
Gerald Brenan books
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54 votes
I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front.
[ Winners and Winning ]
Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks books
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62 votes
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
[ Loneliness ]
Jean De La Bruyere
Jean De La Bruyere books
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43 votes
The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process.
[ Fear ]
Jean Bryant
Jean Bryant books
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48 votes
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
[ World ]
Martin Buber
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62 votes
A good part -- and definitely the most fun part -- of being a feminist is about frightening men.
[ Feminism ]
Julie Burchill
Julie Burchill books
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64 votes
What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?
[ Bores and Boredom ]
George Bush
George Bush books
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47 votes
Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.
[ Work ]
Eric Butterworth
Eric Butterworth books
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44 votes
I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
[ Socializing and Socialism ]
Lord Byron
Lord Byron books
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35 votes
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
[ Alcohol and Alcoholism ]
Lord Byron
Lord Byron books
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53 votes
A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.
[ Humankind ]
Eileen Caddy
Eileen Caddy books
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51 votes
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
[ Individuality ]
Joseph Campell
Joseph Campell books
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25 votes