[ -but Quotes ]
2055 Quotations
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Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
[ Friends and Friendship ]
Aristotle
27 votes
Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.
[ Business ]
P. D. Armour
20 votes
It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
[ Conversation ]
Richard Armour
36 votes
The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
[ Religion ]
Matthew Arnold
16 votes
Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.
[ Education ]
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
27 votes
Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest.
[ Endurance ]
Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
12 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
26 votes
The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!
[ Spirit and Spirituality ]
Sholem Asch
13 votes
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
[ Absence ]
Elizabeth Ashley
21 votes
You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.
[ Perseverance ]
J. Askenberg
9 votes
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
[ Books - Reading ]
W. H. Auden
10 votes
Healing, Papa would tell me, is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.
[ Convalescence ]
W. H. Auden
28 votes
No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
[ Games ]
W. H. Auden
31 votes
God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
[ God ]
John H. Aughey
18 votes
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
[ Adversity ]
St. Augustine
28 votes
I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.
[ Creation ]
St. Augustine
27 votes
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
[ Miracles ]
St. Augustine
32 votes
Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
[ Understanding ]
St. Augustine
27 votes
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
[ Death and Dying ]
Marcus Aurelius
28 votes
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
[ Fear ]
Marcus Aurelius
30 votes
Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.
[ Good and Evil ]
Marcus Aurelius
20 votes
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
[ Losers and Losing ]
Marcus Aurelius
31 votes
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
[ Money ]
Jane Austen
32 votes
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
[ Neighbors ]
Jane Austen
31 votes
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
[ Pity ]
Jane Austen
30 votes
There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
[ Reserve ]
Jane Austen
31 votes
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
[ Men and Women ]
Jane Austen
32 votes
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
[ Hope ]
Francis Bacon
17 votes
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
[ Death and Dying ]
Francis Bacon
23 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
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
[ Conceit ]
Francis Bacon
23 votes
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
[ Painters and Painting ]
Francis Bacon
20 votes
Science is but an image of the truth.
[ Science and Scientists ]
Francis Bacon
21 votes
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
[ Atheism ]
Francis Bacon
10 votes
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
[ Discovery ]
Francis Bacon
28 votes
A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
[ Neighbors ]
Arthur Baer
22 votes