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226 quotesIf this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.
World
Rita Mae Brown
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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.
Change
Lyman L. Bryson
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
Obstinacy
Edmund Burke
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I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
Dissent
Lord Byron
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She'd have you spew up what you've drunk when you were out.
Wives
Caecilius
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Potential
Thomas Carlyle
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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
Past
Thomas Carlyle
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
Life and Living
Jimmy Carter
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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
Leaders and Leadership
Miguel De Cervantes
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
Nations
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
Children
Alexander Chase
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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Children
Chinese Proverb
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If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
Wives
Winston Churchill
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Friends and Friendship
Marcus T. Cicero
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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Fame
Marcus T. Cicero
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
Children
Marcus T. Cicero
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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
Tragedies
E. M. Cioran
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If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.
Fear
Arthur Hugh Clough
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
Body
Leonard Cohen
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Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
Song and Singing
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
Change
Fanny Crosby
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If it weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
Sex
Rodney Dangerfield
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My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!
Marriage
Rodney Dangerfield
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Your friendship is your needs answered.
Friends and Friendship
Danish Proverb
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Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Humankind
Dante Alighieri
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun