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160 quotesI wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.
Poverty and The Poor
Melville D. Landon
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There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
Adversity
Thomas E. Lawrence
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Sanity
Ursula K. LeGuin
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
Publishing and Publishers
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
Action
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
Worry
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.
Government
Rush Limbaugh
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Before buying anything, it is well to ask if one could do without it.
Restraint
Sir John Lubbock
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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.
Love
Katherine Mansfield
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My doctor gave me six months to live but when I couldn't pay the bill, he gave me six months more.
Doctors
Walter Matthau
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How could I have been anyone other than me?
Self-understanding
Dave Matthews
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
H. L. Mencken
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
Worry
Olin Miller
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Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
Money
Spike Milligan
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An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity.
Chastity
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Fools and Foolishness
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
Literature
Iris Murdoch
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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Humor
Lord Nelson
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Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
Dress
Dorothy Parker
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Only Christ could have conceived Christ.
Jesus Christ
Joseph Parker
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I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced.
Burial
Norman Parkinson
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I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
Audiences
Thomas Love Peacock
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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.
Change
John Petworth
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No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction
Affliction
Demetrius Phalerens
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
Vision
Pablo Picasso
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun