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- A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you...
- A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you...
- A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and...
- A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and...
- A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a...
- A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. You know a cow...
- A lot of advertisers lined up to throw money at this stuff because they were caught up in the...
- A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud...
- A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own. ...
- A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it is a sign...
- A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly...
- A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ...
- Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. ...
- Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ...
- Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly but the bumble bee doesn't know it. So it keeps...
- All I really need to know ... I learned in kindergarten. ...
- All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I...
- All men by nature desire to know. ...
- All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ...
- All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. ...
- All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little I still know, I've guessed. ...
- All things good to know are difficult to learn. ...
- All we have of freedom - all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us, long...
- Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries...
- Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your...
- An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. ...
- An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able...
- An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action. ...
- Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to know how to lie...
- Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. ...
- Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and...
- Appear to know only this, - never to fail nor fall. ...
- As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that...
- As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our...
- As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we...
- Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring...
- Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. ...
- Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent...
- Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall...
- Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party. ...
- Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave...
- But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good...
- But I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself - you know, one that will get...
- But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. ...
- By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have...
- By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. ...
- Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that...
- Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where...
- Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them...
- Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes...
- Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because...
- Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but...
- Death in itself is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where. ...
- Democritus says, But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down. ...
- Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook. ...
- Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. ...
- Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. ...
- Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up. ...
- Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth...
- Don't open a shop unless you know how to smile. ...
- Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. ...
- Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ...
- Each of us should do something every day That we do not want to do But we know we...
- Earth's the right place for love. I don't know where it's likely to go better. ...
- Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you...
- Everyone has inside himself a piece of good news! The good news is that you really don't know how...
- Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how...
- Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point: every man is a...
- Follow the habit of asking, How do you know? Never accept opinions as facts. Avoid following free advice. Don't...
- For Africa to me … is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can...
- For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary...
- Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2....
- Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself.) ...
- Genius - To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of...
- God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know...
- God writes a lot of comedy the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know...
- “Good luck, Mr President,” I said to him. “As I told you when I named you, I know the...
- Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you...
- Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. ...
- Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear. (promoting US exports, as quoted in Time)...
- Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ...
- Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may...
- Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may...
- Happiness sneaks through a door you didn't know that you left open. ...
- He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. ...
- He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. ...
- History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history. ...
- History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally true…We never know enough about the infinitely complex...
- How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the...
- How frequently the last time comes and we do not know. ...
- Humans always have fear of an unknown situation - this is normal. The important thing is what we do...
- I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories. ...
- I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. ...
- I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and...
- I am not young enough to know everything. ...
- I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of...
- I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. (Plato's...
- I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against...
- I dated this girl for two years and then the nagging starts: 'I wanna know your name.' ...
- I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not...
- I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It...
- I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been...
- I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am...
- I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all that agnosticism means. ...
- I do the very best I know how - the very best I can;and I mean to keep on...
- I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others. - from...
- I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck...
- I don't know how man will fight World War III, but I do know how they will fight World...
- I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an...
- I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job. ...
- I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ...
- I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be...
- I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with...
- I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you...
- I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be....
- I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God. ...
- I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down....
- I don't know why you use a fancy French word like détente when there's a good English phrase for...
- I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own...
- I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how...
- I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got...
- I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe...
- I finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts: financial worries. - Journals ...
- I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel...
- I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am....
- I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount...
- I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all...
- I have found out in later years [that] we were very poor, but the glory of America is that...
- I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that...
- I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable ... but through it all I still know quite certainly that...
- I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much....
- I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives. ...
- I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. ...
- I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race. ...
- I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to...
- I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious...
- I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for oneself. ...
- I know of only one duty, and that is to love. ...
- I know some good marriages - marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by...
- I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. ...
- I know what I have done, and Your Honor knows what I have done. ... Somewhere between my ambition...
- I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work. ...
- I know where we're going, I just don't know where that IS! ...
- I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know...
- I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy,...
- I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know...
- I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when...
- I prefer my oysters fried; That way I know my oysters died. ...
- I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by...
- I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know it than to be sane and...
- I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time...
- I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know. ...
- I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man: neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile,...
- I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in...
- I want to know not his earning power but his yearning power. ...
- I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know. ...
- I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I...
- I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I...
- I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done...
- I would rather reach for the stars, Then at least I know That I could never end up with...
- If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the...
- If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence...
- If I know what love is, it is because of you. ...
- If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else...
- If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses...
- If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he...
- If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know? ...
- If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we...
- If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics. ...
- If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,...
- If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation...
- If we don't know life, how can we know death? ...
- If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see...
- If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness....
- If you are faced with an unpleasant person or situation that you can do nothing about, bless the situation....
- If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. ...
- If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. ...
- If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there? ...
- If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else. ...
- If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly. ...
- If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn...
- If you seek yourself,...you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it...
- If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to. ...
- If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to. ...
- If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his...
- If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. ...
- If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. ...
- Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone. ...
- I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb...and I also know that...
- I'm very curious to know what the hell they're saying on the phone, but I'd be more worried if...
- Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover...
- In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers'...
- In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. ...
- In the end the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get...
- In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can...
- In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of...
- Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to...
- Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery?...
- It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally, even when you know what you're talking about. ...
- It ain't what folks know that's the problem, it's what they know that ain't so. ...
- It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers. ...
- It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. ...
- It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest...
- It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees. ...
- It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie...
- It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills...
- It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any...
- It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any...
- It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and *then* do your best....
- It is not the critic that counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or...
- It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what...
- It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. ...
- It is possible by long-continued practice, not merely in lying, but in talking on subjects in which we have...
- It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time. ...
- It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction...
- [It was] an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me...
- It was the same with those old birds in Greece and Rome as it is now. The only thing...
- It's amazing what one can do when one doesn't know what one can't do. ...
- It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. ...
- It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me. ...
- It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what...
- It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. ...
- It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that...
- It's what we learn after we think we know it all that counts. ...
- It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. ...
- It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. ...
- Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one,...
- Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just...
- Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. ...
- Keep working your way through the maze. You'll know what it is when it happens, but you won't know...
- Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that....
- Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that....
- Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you...
- Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong. ...
- Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people. Nor for others, easier. ...
- Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, more sensitive and aware....
- Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on...
- Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person. ...
- Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation. ...
- Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where...
- Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There...
- Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others...
- Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden,...
- Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later,...
- Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. ...
- Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had...
- Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire....
- Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died. ...
- Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the...
- Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how,...
- Look around the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. ...
- Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I...
- Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I...
- Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment - a way of looking at...
- Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky, Before the sun came out. You cannot touch...
- Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies...
- Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. ...
- Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as...
- Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen....
- Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise. ...
- Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether...
- May those who love us, love us And those that don't, love us. May God turn their hearts, And...
- Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash...
- Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ...
- Modern man thinks he loses something; time; when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know...
- Money, we know, will fetch anything and command the service of any man. ...
- Most of us have been taught about the need to appropriate by faith what is already ours through grace....
- Most people who succeed n the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to...
- Much that passes for education ... is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are...
- My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a...
- Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody. ...
- Never let the odds keep you from pursuing What you know in your heart you were meant to do....
- Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language. ...
- Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of...
- Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know...
- No, Ernest, don't talk about action…. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream....
- No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even...
- No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot...
- No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of...
- No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but...
- No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time,...
- No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know. ...
- Nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the...
- Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. ...
- Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues...
- Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse. ...
- Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse. ...
- Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy. ...
- Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use...
- Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us,...
- Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what...
- Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You...
- Of what significance is one's one existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water...
- Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two. ...
- Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people. ...
- [On doing another talk show:] It would be like going back to a relationship. Ever do that? You go...
- Once in a while you meet someone, and soon you both discover the two of you are truly something...
- One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do...
- One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going. ...
- One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. ...
- One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put...
- One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made...
- One of the self-authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact: that we know...
- One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. ...
- Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold. ...
- Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an...
- Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. ...
- Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of...
- Our (The Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature. ...
- Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is...
- Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we...
- Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we...
- Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know. ...
- Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to...
- Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. ...
- Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell. ...
- Paul was to know and proclaim God's will, His purpose, in view of Israel's rejection of Christ. Had God...
- Paul was to know and proclaim God's will, His purpose, in view of Israel's rejection of christ. Had god...
- Paul's evangelistic mission was different from the Kingdom Apostles, but in many ways the same. The Kingdom Apostles preached...
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