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5031 Quotations
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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.
[ Love ]
Myrtle Auvil
28 votes
Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
[ Money ]
Alan Ayckbourn
20 votes
If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.
[ Leaders and Leadership ]
Rabbi Ben Azai
27 votes
Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.
[ Revolutions and Revolutionaries ]
Mariano Azuela
19 votes
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
[ Faces ]
Lauren Bacall
31 votes
Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours
[ Possibilities ]
Richard Bach
26 votes
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
[ Language ]
Gaston Bachelard
23 votes
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
[ Children ]
Gaston Bachelard
23 votes
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
[ Success ]
Jim Backus
24 votes
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
[ Grace ]
Francis Bacon
15 votes
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
[ Questions ]
Francis Bacon
17 votes
Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
[ Uncategorised ]
Francis Bacon
14 votes
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
[ Choice ]
Francis Bacon
16 votes
Cure the disease and kill the patient.
[ Doctors ]
Francis Bacon
11 votes
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
[ Fame ]
Francis Bacon
26 votes
God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.
[ Gardening and Gardens ]
Francis Bacon
27 votes
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
[ Home ]
Francis Bacon
29 votes
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
[ Courtesy ]
Francis Bacon
19 votes
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
[ Fear ]
Francis Bacon
27 votes
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
Francis Bacon
14 votes
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
[ Knowledge ]
Francis Bacon
29 votes
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
[ Lies and Lying ]
Francis Bacon
11 votes
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
[ Life and Living ]
Francis Bacon
15 votes
Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
[ Consistency ]
Francis Bacon
26 votes
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
[ Opposition ]
Francis Bacon
27 votes
Nature is commanded by obeying her.
[ Nature ]
Francis Bacon
20 votes
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
[ Envy ]
Francis Bacon
19 votes
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
[ Love ]
Francis Bacon
27 votes
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
[ Age and Aging ]
Francis Bacon
27 votes
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
[ Painters and Painting ]
Francis Bacon
20 votes
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
[ Adversity ]
Francis Bacon
25 votes
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
[ Training ]
Francis Bacon
6 votes
Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested.
[ Books - Reading ]
Francis Bacon
30 votes
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
[ Learning ]
Francis Bacon
21 votes
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
[ Nationalities and Nationalism ]
Francis Bacon
25 votes
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
[ Proverbs ]
Francis Bacon
18 votes