A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.


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I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
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MILAN STOJILOVIC
Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence ag...
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
Sirs, I have tested your machine [a gramophone]. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long...
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The national sport of England is obstacle-racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersom...
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
The tree of life is made of purity, eternity and has the bark of wisdom and enlightenment.With its b...
GARY F EVANS...
Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
DEYTH BANGER
She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, the Tree ...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON
Most of the tree of life is effectively arranged.
SIMON CONWAY MORRIS
When you are tired of making bad choices in life, turn to others outside your circle for answers. Fr...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE
Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Will GWB be the (Herbert) Hoover of his age?
JUDE WANNISKI
As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE
I had traveled far, had circled the planet and studied my Torah, and at the very end of my search I ...
DANIEL MENDELSOHN
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
WILLIAM BLAKE
It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the...
DAISAKU IKEDA
A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Ignorance is a deadly parasite; the pursuit of enlightenment is the only cure.
REBEKAH CYPHERS
Romanes eunt domus
LIFE OF BRIAN
One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.
ELBERT HUBBARD
One who accepts criticism gracefully is genuinely interested in self improvement.One who is willing ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.
ELBERT HUBBARD
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance
ELBERT HUBBARD
But there, set as in the crater of a mountain of sand, and inaccessible to mortal footstep, stands u...
BERNARD CAPES
Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies...
MICHAEL SCHUDSON
The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herber...
ARTHUR MIDDLETON
Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence ag...
SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.
SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
Cynicism is the humor of hatred.
SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
The tree of life was always there. Evolution just fills in the gaps.
SIMON CONWAY MORRIS
I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.
BRAD PITT
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
HAROLD MACMILLAN
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
HAROLD MACMILLAN
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance
HAROLD MACMILLAN
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good o...
GERARD DE NERVAL
"The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life!" And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good...
GERALD DE NERVAL
In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA
Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
CYRIL CONNOLLY
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
HERACLITUS
Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS
If you can hide love and a cough, then I say you can hide your ignorance too.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and fait...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
A lifetime of eating at the foot of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil had produced a vision of ...
RJ BLIZZARD
This is perhaps what has made some suspect that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was really a ...
JANE GRIGSON
After we eat of the Apple of Knowledge, however, all of us start to be aware of ourselves, and our c...
MARTIJN BENDERS
I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Plant a seed of cashew, it will grow into a tree and by the fourth year it will fruit and keep produ...
SOTONYE ANGA
Choose who to follow. You can't follow everyone that shows up
SOTONYE ANGA
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جلجامش نبيل, GILGAMESH NABEEL
His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability wh...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Like a deep sad note
played beneath the ocean
waving through the orb
the memories of ...
PAWAN MISHRA
Synchronicities then can be said are the product of focused thought which appear as patterns repeati...
L.J. VANIER
If you love a tree you will be more beautiful than before!
AMIT RAY
He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.
RICHARD WHATLEY
It is so easy to hide our ignorance under such expressions as the 'plan of creation,' 'unity of desi...
CHARLES DARWIN
The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY
He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance.
JOSEPH MUCHEMI
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencie...
VICTOR HUGO
Spreading knowledge is the most effective weapon for defeating ignorance.
ERALDO BANOVAC
Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond.
ANGELICA HOPES
There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN
Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
The death of a man brings a stop to his life, but not an end to his destiny. When destiny is well fu...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
One of the most important things I have found is that no one school of thought has all of the answer...
LEWIS N. ROE
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.
Nothing is needed more than truth, and in relation to it everything else has only second-rate value....
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates H...
FRANZ KAFKA
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not t...
LORD BYRON
Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any ...
IAIN PEARS
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the ...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING
Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER
Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.
DANIEL C. GELMAN
Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.
DANIEL C. GELMAN
I may be naked, but my thoughts are still hidden.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
Our garden was large and beautiful as that garden in the Bible – the tree of life grew there. But ...
JEAN RHYS
I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.
ANDREA KOEHLE JONES
The thing about a long snapper is that no one knows who I am unless I goof up.
GAVIN TARQUINIO
I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG
A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY
The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ...
LUCY GREALY
The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore.
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A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS...
The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
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Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ...
GARY F EVANS...

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Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence ag...
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
Sirs, I have tested your machine [a gramophone]. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long...
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The national sport of England is obstacle-racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersom...
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Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.
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He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.
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I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty
HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.
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Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence ag...
SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.
SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
Cynicism is the humor of hatred.
SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM TREE
Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
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The Sky?s The Limit.
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There are some good sitters out there, you just need to find them and keep them,
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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
MAX BEERBOHM
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other peo...
MAX BEERBOHM
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul
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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.
MAX BEERBOHM
I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
MAX BEERBOHM
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
MAX BEERBOHM
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is l...
MAX BEERBOHM
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other peopl...
MAX BEERBOHM
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
MAX BEERBOHM
Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
MAX BEERBOHM
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
MAX BEERBOHM
She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.
MAX BEERBOHM
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad...
MAX BEERBOHM
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial...
MAX BEERBOHM
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than m...
MAX BEERBOHM
Nobody ever died of laughter.
MAX BEERBOHM
How many charming talents have been spoiled by the instilled desire to do 'important' work! Some peo...
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The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a dist...
MAX BEERBOHM
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
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I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spir...
MAX BEERBOHM
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
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People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.
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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
MAX BEERBOHM
Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.
MAX BEERBOHM
The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.
MAX BEERBOHM
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
MAX BEERBOHM
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
MAX BEERBOHM
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
MAX BEERBOHM
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
MAX BEERBOHM
When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.
MAX BEERBOHM
When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.
MAX BEERBOHM
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that...
MAX BEERBOHM
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and ...
MAX BEERBOHM
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality
MAX BEERBOHM
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul
MAX BEERBOHM
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful
MAX BEERBOHM
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
MAX BEERBOHM
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt
MAX BEERBOHM
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best
MAX BEERBOHM
Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.
MAX BEERBOHM
I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.
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Fate wrote her [Queen Caroline] a most tremendous tragedy, and she played it in tights.
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The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to bad e...
MAX BEERBOHM
By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, En...
MAX BEERBOHM
Every kind of writing is hypocritical
MAX BEERBOHM
You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself
MAX BEERBOHM
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
MAX BEERBOHM
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MAX BEERBOHM
And love levels all, doesn't it? Love and the Board school.
MAX BEERBOHM
She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.''
MAX BEERBOHM
I looked out for what the metropolitan reviewers would have to say. They seemed to fall into two cla...
MAX BEERBOHM
O the disgrace of it! - / The scandal, the incredible come-down!
MAX BEERBOHM
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MAX BEERBOHM
You will find my last words in the blue folder.
MAX BEERBOHM
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire symp...
MAX BEERBOHM
Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. T...
MAX BEERBOHM
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality
MAX BEERBOHM
People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table
MAX BEERBOHM
People are either born hosts or born guests
MAX BEERBOHM
Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.
MAX BEERBOHM
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
MAX BEERBOHM
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
MAX BEERBOHM
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
MAX BEERBOHM
What were they going to do with the Grail when they found it, Mr Rossetti?
MAX BEERBOHM
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and ...
MAX BEERBOHM
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
MAX BEERBOHM
People are either born hosts or born guests.
MAX BEERBOHM
A swear-word in a rustic slum / A simple swear-word is to some, / To Masefield something more.
MAX BEERBOHM
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or sp...
MAX BEERBOHM
As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a pe...
MAX BEERBOHM
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
MAX BEERBOHM
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
MAX BEERBOHM
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
MAX BEERBOHM
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other peopl...
MAX BEERBOHM
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I sus...
MAX BEERBOHM
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature
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Cultivate an environment fertile for good habits to flourish
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
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Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best.
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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows thr...
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A whole people with the ballot in their hands possess the most conclusive and unlimited power ever e...
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That's a large part of the job as governor: to create and maintain the optimal balance.
GARY HERBERT
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When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, ...
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In 2014, Utah cities Salt Lake City and Provo both surpassed Silicon Valley in per-deal venture capi...
GARY HERBERT
Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.
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Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
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When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect w...
GARY HERBERT
Don't spend more than you take in. Control your debt. Empower the private sector. We have 50 sta...
GARY HERBERT
I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
GARY HERBERT
Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob...
GARY HERBERT
I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic l...
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Utah is no longer considered a flyover state.
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It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses arou...
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Strong families are vital to strong societies.
GARY HERBERT
I believe that our teachers need more freedom to be creative in the classroom in order to maximize t...
GARY HERBERT
Education is the largest and most important investment Utah makes.
GARY HERBERT
As governor, I enjoy the opportunity to talk about Utah's measurable business success.
GARY HERBERT
My priority will continue to be that we maintain the optimal balance to be able to invest in educati...
GARY HERBERT
One person's rights do not have to come at the expense of another's. If we can find common g...
GARY HERBERT
While technology and assessment can help complement the important work of our teachers, I worry that...
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The value of a loving family cannot be understated.
GARY HERBERT
There's no reason why fiscal responsibility is a Democrat or a Republican point of view. It ough...
GARY HERBERT
I believe in collaboration and cooperation.
GARY HERBERT
The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, e...
HERBERT HOOVER
The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinning...
HERBERT SIMON
Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dor...
HERBERT SPENCER
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours ...
HERBERT SPENCER
Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's ...
HERBERT SPENCER
You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomi...
HERBERT HOOVER
One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
GEORGE HERBERT
To build castles in Spain.
GEORGE HERBERT
A coole mouth, and warme feet, live long. [A cool mouth, and warm feet, live long.]
GEORGE HERBERT
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It w...
HERBERT CROLY
The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
GARY HERBERT
Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconsc...
HERBERT READ
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out i...
HERBERT HOOVER
We think this will be the first of many common variants that cause obesity.
ALAN HERBERT
We have found a very common determinant of obesity that's present in populations of different ethnic...
ALAN HERBERT
Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it
ALAN HERBERT
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon ...
ALAN HERBERT
The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time
ALAN HERBERT
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word sugge...
ALAN HERBERT
A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso
ALAN HERBERT
Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.
HERBERT HOOVER
We have not yet reached the goal but... we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day ...
HERBERT HOOVER
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
HERBERT HOOVER
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires...
HERBERT SPENCER
The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.
HERBERT READ
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
HERBERT SPENCER
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
HERBERT SPENCER
Never was a miser a brave soul.
GEORGE HERBERT
Science is organised knowledge.
HERBERT SPENCER
The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want...
AUBERON HERBERT
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
FRANK HERBERT
For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.
GEORGE HERBERT
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
HERBERT SPENCER
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have becom...
FRANK HERBERT
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
FRANK HERBERT
Time: that which man is always trying to kill, ends in killing him.
HERBERT SPENCER
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
HERBERT ASQUITH
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of y...
FRANK HERBERT
We wanted to make a statement. A seven-year contract makes a very strong statement that we believe i...
ADAM HERBERT
I am fully convinced that he will elevate the program to what you expect.
ADAM HERBERT
He has made very clear his determination that our players will do well academically and will graduat...
ADAM HERBERT
I am convinced that our new coach understands fully and is determined to meet Indiana University's h...
ADAM HERBERT
Although coach Davis reaffirmed his belief that he can take our program to the levels to which we as...
ADAM HERBERT
Coach Davis assumed one of the most difficult challenges any coach can accept by following a legenda...
ADAM HERBERT
Coach Davis assumed one of most difficult challenges any coach can accept -- following a legendary p...
ADAM HERBERT
He (Davis) thought it was an appropriate time for the AD (athletic director) and me to consider a co...
ADAM HERBERT
Mike followed a legendary predecessor and responded to it with character, graciousness and the deter...
ADAM HERBERT
I love Indiana University. I think it is an exciting institution and it has been a privilege to serv...
ADAM HERBERT
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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A library is thought in cold storage.
HERBERT SAMUEL
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ge...
HERBERT SPENCER
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment t...
HERBERT SPENCER
Freedom of enterprise was from the beginning not altogether a blessing. As the liberty to work or to...
HERBERT MARCUSE
In doing we learn.
GEORGE HERBERT
The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action
HERBERT SPENCER
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep th...
GEORGE HERBERT
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-makin...
FRANK HERBERT
Fear is the mind-killer.
FRANK HERBERT
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the r...
FRANK HERBERT
The revolution is for the sake of life, not death.
HERBERT MARCUSE
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
GEORGE HERBERT
There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.
FRANK HERBERT
What does a mirror look at?
FRANK HERBERT
Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religi...
FRANK HERBERT
Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on...
FRANK HERBERT
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Some...
FRANK HERBERT
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'...
FRANK HERBERT
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit...
FRANK HERBERT
The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wi...
FRANK HERBERT
Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you ...
FRANK HERBERT
Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.
FRANK HERBERT
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's...
FRANK HERBERT
Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things..." she held up four big-knuckle...
FRANK HERBERT