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Little by little does the trick.
[ Things and Little Things ]
Aesop
Aesop books
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Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
[ Reason ]
Woody Allen
Woody Allen books
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85 votes
Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.
[ Change ]
Mary S. Almanac
Mary S. Almanac books
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67 votes
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
[ Character ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frederic Amiel books
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A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
[ Men and Women ]
Barbara De Angelis
Barbara De Angelis books
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67 votes
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
[ Action ]
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou books
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
[ Character ]
Aristotle
Aristotle books
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
[ Nature ]
Aristotle
Aristotle books
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74 votes
Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
[ Absence ]
Elizabeth Ashley
Elizabeth Ashley books
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51 votes
A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
[ Freedom ]
Kemal Ataturk
Kemal Ataturk books
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69 votes
Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.
[ Popular Culture ]
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood books
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43 votes
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
[ Duty ]
St. Augustine
St. Augustine books
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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
[ Life and Living ]
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius books
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How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
[ Opinions ]
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius books
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62 votes
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
[ Action ]
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius books
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65 votes
Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.
[ Ingratitude ]
Decimus Magnus Ausonius
Decimus Magnus Ausonius books
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74 votes
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
[ Money ]
Jane Austen
Jane Austen books
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87 votes
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
[ Work ]
Jane Austen
Jane Austen books
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79 votes
A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.
[ Fear ]
Grandma Axiom
Grandma Axiom books
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60 votes
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
[ Truth ]
Richard Bach
Richard Bach books
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70 votes
A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
[ Neighbors ]
Arthur Baer
Arthur Baer books
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69 votes
It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
[ Persecution ]
James Baldwin
James Baldwin books
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39 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
Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.
[ Power ]
Harry F. Banks
Harry F. Banks books
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66 votes
The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.
[ Politicians and Politics ]
Barres
Barres books
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64 votes
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
[ Praise ]
Sir James M. Barrie
Sir James M. Barrie books
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72 votes
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
[ Happiness ]
Sir James M. Barrie
Sir James M. Barrie books
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68 votes
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
[ Mistakes ]
Orlando A. Battista
Orlando A. Battista books
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69 votes
Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul.
[ Rejection ]
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire books
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59 votes
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist
[ Devil ]
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire books
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72 votes
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
[ Feminism ]
Simone De Beauvoir
Simone De Beauvoir books
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55 votes
The bastard! He doesn't exist!
[ God ]
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett books
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43 votes
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
[ Sanity ]
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher books
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70 votes
Telling lies does not work in advertising.
[ Advertising ]
Tim Bell
Tim Bell books
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49 votes
Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.
[ Miracles ]
David Ben-Gurion
David Ben-Gurion books
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47 votes
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
[ Photography ]
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin books
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41 votes
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
[ Cleverness ]
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett books
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76 votes
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
[ Opportunity ]
Milton Berle
Milton Berle books
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41 votes
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
[ Civil Rights ]
Georges Bernanos
Georges Bernanos books
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79 votes
Easy DOESN'T do it.
[ Effort ]
Al Bernstein
Al Bernstein books
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41 votes
The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.
[ Control ]
John Berry
John Berry books
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49 votes
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
[ Praise ]
Best of Bits and Pieces
Best of Bits and Pieces books
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60 votes
What is does a person profit if they gain the whole world and lose their soul.
[ Soul ]
Bible
Bible books
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73 votes
Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
[ Army and Navy ]
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce books
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70 votes
When in Rome, do as Rome does.
[ Cities and City Life ]
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce books
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36 votes
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
[ Experience ]
Josh Billings
Josh Billings books
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42 votes
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
[ Quality ]
Josh Billings
Josh Billings books
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44 votes
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
[ Conscience ]
Josh Billings
Josh Billings books
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76 votes
He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.
[ Desire ]
William Blake
William Blake books
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46 votes
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
[ Freedom ]
Leon Blum
Leon Blum books
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52 votes