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A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face
JUVENAL Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
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SCOTT LYNCH The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) No one delights more in vengeance than a woman. Juvenal, Satires, XIII.
JUVENAL SATIRES THE 13TH Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life.
SAVI SHARMA All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Cheap is the love that has a price.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.
RICHIE NORTON Her face was like a pot of tea about to whistle.
CAROLYN TURGEON Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose
BALTASAR GRACIAN A man who calls the police has nothing to hide.
LOU FREEMAN Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
BALTASAR GRACIáN What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeab...
ANN RADCLIFFE A man who does nothing never has time to do anything
CHARLES H. SPURGEON I'd rather be in a relationship with GOD,than a man who has sacrificed nothing for me
PATTY MEDINA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE I can whistle with my fingers, especially if I have a whistle.
MITCH HEDBERG People need stories. Stories of love, hope, survival, wisdom and sometimes pain. Maybe you don’t t...
SAVI SHARMA A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
HOMER A bore is a man who has nothing to say and says it anyway.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
HAROLD COFFIN We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN To everyone battling a difficulty or under attack right now, smile, keep your head up, keep moving a...
GERMANY KENT You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
TERTULLIAN Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks i...
SIDNEY J. HARRIS To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY I can pick good food, but I can't pick a good man.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS And because God has entrusted you with such riches, you can use these resources to make a profound d...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Nothing more lethal to imperialism than a leader who can live like a common man.
AHMED SIDDIQUI Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
HAROLD COFFIN The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can ...
ERNEST HELLO I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER It's not about who you sleep with, or whether you know about sports or tools or have a pearl-wearing...
BEN MONOPOLI When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters,
LIN YUTANG I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles
HELEN SCHUCMAN You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER There isn't an hour of my life without you in it. I mend the boats, test them and all the while the ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who c...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty--he has suffered longer.
MAE WEST Most people I think feel exterior-wise Churches, unless we yell like 'horton hears a who' that all u...
CHUCK BRIDGES A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.
PROVERB A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.
AMERICAN PROVERB A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
JAMES A. GARFIELD A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil
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SEI SHōNAGON If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
HERMANN HESSE If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do
HERMANN HESSE The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
PROVERB The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
FRENCH PROVERB That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
FRENCH PROVERB As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.
JAMES C. DOBSON You don't put robbers to work in a bank
AMERICAN PROVERB A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing t...
DALE CARNEGIE The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing
OSCAR WILDE I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tom...
CHARLES DICKENS If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER The Fatherland Liberation War, which the Korean people fought against the haughty U.S. imperialists ...
KIM JONG-UN You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
JAMES D. MILES You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
MALCOLM FORBES A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist--nothing shields him from the world's gaze except h...
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
THOMAS JEFFERSON The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
THOMAS JEFFERSON No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
E. M. FORSTER Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a sing...
HOMER Nicole can do anything that involves a ball and whistle.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
NIELS BOHR Demonstrating hostility to a man who hold this or that post has nothing to do with promoting democra...
ALEXANDER SURIKOV Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
COLIN FIRTH Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
DEYTH BANGER I'm supposed to be a man but I can't help thinking no one ever showed me what that is supposed to lo...
HEATHER DUFFY STONE A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
VICTOR HUGO A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.
DEBASISH MRIDHA It’s easy to count other people’s mistakes. Make your own if you can.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the c...
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Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
JUVENAL The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
JUVENAL Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
JUVENAL Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body.
JUVENAL A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
JUVENAL From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse thin...
JUVENAL Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
JUVENAL Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
JUVENAL The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.
JUVENAL Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
JUVENAL Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
JUVENAL A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.
JUVENAL All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
JUVENAL All things may be bought in Rome with money.
JUVENAL Many commit the same crime with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villainy,...
JUVENAL Few people can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse.
JUVENAL No one every suddenly became depraved.
JUVENAL It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
JUVENAL So rare is the union of beauty with modesty.
JUVENAL The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into o...
JUVENAL Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of af...
JUVENAL Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
JUVENAL We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
JUVENAL A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
JUVENAL They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
JUVENAL Two things only the people desire: bread, and the circus games.
JUVENAL What is the use of your pedigrees?
JUVENAL Even savage animals can agree among themselves.
JUVENAL Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
JUVENAL It is difficult not to write satire.
JUVENAL Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
JUVENAL Every great house is full of haughty servants.
JUVENAL It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
JUVENAL One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem on others.
JUVENAL Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
JUVENAL Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.
JUVENAL A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face
JUVENAL Revenge is the abject pleasure of an abject mind.
JUVENAL Revenge is a dish best served cold
JUVENAL Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred,
The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.
JUVENAL Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
JUVENAL You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.
JUVENAL A healthy mind in a healthy body.
JUVENAL Peace visits not the guilty mind.
(Nemo Malus Felix)
JUVENAL It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
JUVENAL One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.
JUVENAL This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
JUVENAL Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.
JUVENAL There is hardly a case in which the dispute was not caused by a woman.
JUVENAL A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't...
JUVENAL Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
JUVENAL Be gentle with the young.
JUVENAL The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wi...
JUVENAL How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
JUVENAL Wisdom overcomes fortune.
JUVENAL The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.
JUVENAL Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a con...
JUVENAL Who will guard the guards themselves?
(quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
JUVENAL The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no m...
JUVENAL Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes lif...
JUVENAL Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reaso...
JUVENAL Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we ...
JUVENAL One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
JUVENAL Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.
JUVENAL Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the of...
JUVENAL Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face
JUVENAL The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no m...
JUVENAL Two things only the people anxiously desire - bread and circuses
JUVENAL There's many a thing which they - Whose coats are tattered never dare to say
JUVENAL Panem et circenses.
JUVENAL No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.
JUVENAL All want to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price
JUVENAL All wish to know, but none want to pay the fee
JUVENAL Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last
JUVENAL Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
JUVENAL Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, w...
JUVENAL 'Tis unto children most respect is due
JUVENAL Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind
JUVENAL Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons ...
JUVENAL Wisdom is the winner over good luck
JUVENAL Honesty is praised and starves
JUVENAL The blind envy the one-eyed
JUVENAL No one ever suddenly became depraved
JUVENAL Let nothing which is disgraceful to be spoken of, or to be seen, approach this place where a child i...
JUVENAL Virtue is the one and only nobility.
JUVENAL Indulgence rare to pleasures lendeth zest
JUVENAL No one ever reached the depths of wickedness all at once.
JUVENAL No one shall be a thief with me as his helper
JUVENAL In times like these it is difficult not to write satire
JUVENAL Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.
JUVENAL Virtue's admired - and shivers with the cold
JUVENAL difficile est saturam non scribere
JUVENAL Who is to guard the guards themselves?
JUVENAL The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.
JUVENAL A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ign...
JUVENAL I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.
JUVENAL Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Father of his country. [Lat., Pater pariae.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) I only feel, but want the power to paint. [Lat., Nequeo monstrare et sentio tantum.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O P...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) You are not to do evil that good may come of it. [Lat., Non faciat malum, ut inde veniat bonum.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogita...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. [Lat., Se judice, nemo nocens absolvitur.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A rare bird upon the earth, and exceedingly like a black swan. [Lat., Rara avis in terris, nigroqu...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of a...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) No one rejoices more in revenge than woman. [Lat., Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind. [Lat., Semper et infirmi est anim...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools. [Lat., At vindicta bonum vita jucundius ipsa...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. [Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods. [...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Those who do not wish to kill any one, wish they had the power. [Lat., Et qui nolunt occidere quem...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. [Lat., Dives fieri qui vult Et c...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Common sense among men of fortune is rare. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sunsus communis in illa For...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat.,...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Satire is what closes Saturday night.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) It is difficult not to write satire. [Lat., Difficile est satiram non scribere.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) I will it, I order it, let my will stand for a reason. [Lat., Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those who denounce what they do themselv...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Whence do you derive the power and privilege of a parent, when you, though an old man, do worse thi...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent of the undertaking and the accompli...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) With thumb turned. [Lat., Verso pollice.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpib...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in c...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank. [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in i...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) And though you duck them ne'er so long, Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue; On eagles' w...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) And there's a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame; On eag...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. [Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in ...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A lucky man is rarer than a white crow. [Lat., Felix ille tamen corvo quoque rarior albo.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine ...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Go, madman! rush over the wildest Alps, that you may please children and be made the subject of de...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. [Lat., Omnia Graece! C...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proport...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; Tha...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deform...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish. [Lat., Potuit fortasse minoria P...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear? [Lat., Quid violentius aure tyranni?]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part. [Lat., Lingua mali pars pessima servi.]
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) To eat at another's table is your ambition's height. [Lat., Bona summa putes, aliena vivere quadra...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Bid the hungry Greek go to heaven, he will go. [Lat., Graeculus esuriens in coelum, jusseris, ibit...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) Nature never says one thing and wisdom another.
DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL No one delights more in vengeance than a woman. Juvenal, Satires, XIII.
JUVENAL SATIRES THE 13TH