I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
Lord Byron
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I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
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MICHAEL H. DANSBURY I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
BAO DAI I was mad of course and still am, but harmless, I passed for harmless, that's a good one. Not of cou...
SAMUEL BECKETT This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po...
TERRY PRATCHETT The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE Girl! I'm here to make you look Fa-Bu-Lous!
FAKE CINNA My child died last night—and now I shall be alone again, if I must really go on living. They will ...
STEFAN ZWEIG I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.
LEON JAWORSKI I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate
LEON JAWORSKI Snuff at a wake is fine if there's nobody sneezing over the snuff box.
IRISH PROVERB The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ...
LEWIS N. ROE If your presence doesn't make an impact, your absence won't make a difference.
TREY SMITH I would love an upgrade from the Nielsen box; it feels so antiquated to me.
NAT FAXON I would rather have a good plan today than a perfect plan two weeks from now.
GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON Whether you say that a god does exist, or that none do, it is a claim
to know (or at least believe i...
LEWIS N. ROE All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.
RICKY GERVAIS I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority comp...
VANNA BONTA I would rather have a word of encouragement from a friend while i am here...than a whole truckload w...
NERRYMIAH SCIPIO I would rather die an individual than live my life as a clone.
CRISTINA MARRERO I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened pois...
MARK TWAIN There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR There is a tear for all who die,
A mourner o'er the humblest grave.
- Lord Byron (George Gor...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) I would rather be told an R-rated truth than a G-rated lie.
KEN GIRE your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE Having been shown the possibility that God exists, the atheist has
chosen not to accept it. They hav...
LEWIS N. ROE The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can...
LEWIS N. ROE To hope and trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness, long-suffering, keeping ...
ROBERT D. HALES The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidenc...
LEWIS N. ROE The shapes inched closer. I gaped at them, trying to discern their features. "I think I see dead peo...
JAYDE SCOTT There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
- Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) I would give relief from the first $10,000 of the payroll tax. I would allow small businesses to acc...
BOB GRAHAM I would rather have a back row seat in the house of the lord than a front row seat amoung the rich a...
ALBEN WILLIAM BARKLEY This bill would have taken our grade from an F to an A.
DAVE CONTARINO An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred ...
JOSEPH ADDISON An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarre...
JOSEPH ADDISON An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarre...
JOSEPH ADDISON A lofty cane, a sword with silver hilt,
A ring, two watches, and a snuff box gilt.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.
CRISS JAMI Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the empe...
CHINUA ACHEBE I would rather prevent what happened than issue an apology afterwards,
DONALD PAYNE I was a 'runaway girl' from France who married an American and moved to New York City. I'...
LOUISE BOURGEOIS I rather have a handful of Sobriety, than a handful of an alcoholic beverage.
ARIEL S BRITO An alluring woman
need not bat an eyelash
to hit a homer
and steal a man's heart.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's
warling.
WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH When you have nothing nobody knows you.
When you have something everyone knows you.
If you're not wi...
REGINA MARIE CHRISTENSON My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
JIM FOX Live for today with your eyes on the future.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Don't let anyone blind you with their criticism, you're just beautiful.
AMAN JANGDA Everyone is good at something as long as they love that something.
ARDIT BALISHA The hardest step to take is always the first one.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL To rule an iceberg, you must swim,.. Deep.
Pour régner sur l'iceberg, il faut savoir nager en profo...
CARL MATHIEU Behave with kind with surrendorist, but behave with cruelty with enemy.
NITIN S DHARKAR Words are magic to those who chose to listen, to those who don’t are bones.
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çünkü fena kırmızıdır
kan tutar / tutan ölür
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ATTILâ İLHAN I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.
LUDWIG FEUERBACH You look . . . better than before."
Was that a compliment? I could have sworn Lucien gave Tamli...
SARAH J. MAAS The expression in her eyes was an expression that Byron had described to us as the look of hope. I c...
JANET NORWOOD I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the ...
RICHARD FORD So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an A...
MICHAEL STIPE I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than set in the seat of the mighty.
ALBEN WILLIAM BARKLEY select songs that would give an insight into Rosemary from a family perspective, and from the more t...
DEBBY BOONE I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat ...
ARTHUR MILLER There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an ine...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an ine...
WILLIAM HAZLITT O Lord, I am further away from me than from You!
SORIN CERIN If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual wo...
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS I rather like my reputation, actually, that of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a wo...
RICHARD BURTON I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.'
GUILLAUME CANET I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
ALBEN W. BARKLEY I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying tr...
JOHN GREEN the intelligence community owes the president (an explanation) rather than the president owing the A...
DAVID KAY When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an ...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM I would much rather devour a piece of well-seasoned squash than a slice of an animal's rotting c...
JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL “Chancellor Michael Harris IU Kokomo is An Incandescent Spirit Forging A New Reality.”
EVA WHITE The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I...
CHARLES LINDBERGH Basically, you die earlier and spend more time disabled if you're an American rather than a member o...
CHRISTOPHER MURRAY For I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
ALBEN W. BARKLEY When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed fr...
ELIZABETH I American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than e...
NEIL GORSUCH To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rat...
LESLIE FIEDLER As an American I wish my Dad had been elected. Personally I think my life is easier than it would ha...
ELEANOR MONDALE I would much rather have a butt than boobs.
EVA LONGORIA I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull.
STEPHANIE BARRON You find Latin girls who are as dark or darker than I am, so it wasn't about where they came from, ....
IMAN I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree
DANA BURNET Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
WASHINGTON IRVING At all times an empire is more important than emperor and empress, prince and princess.
AMIT KALANTRI
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LORD BYRON With just enough of learning to misquote.
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LORD BYRON A man must serve his time to every trade / Save censure - critics all are ready made. / Take hackney...
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LORD BYRON He said / Little, but to the purpose.
LORD BYRON The tourture we desire is the greatest of all.
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LORD BYRON Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest
LORD BYRON And wrinkles (the damned democrats) won't flatter
LORD BYRON The drying up a single tear has more - Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore
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LORD BYRON Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
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LORD BYRON I thought it would appear / That there had been a lady in the case.
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LORD BYRON I die, - but first I have possessed, / And come what may, I have been blessed.
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LORD BYRON The best of prophets of the future is the past
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LORD BYRON Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
LORD BYRON There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron.
LORD BYRON Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never
LORD BYRON Arm! Arm! it is - it is - the cannon's opening roar!
LORD BYRON Let these describe the indescribable.
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LORD BYRON I like a woman to talk or I am left with the suspicion that she is thinking.
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LORD BYRON I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
LORD BYRON With just enough of learning to misquote
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LORD BYRON Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
LORD BYRON The busy have no time for tears.
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LORD BYRON What an antithetical mind! -- tenderness, roughness -- delicacy, coarseness -- sentiment, sensuality...
LORD BYRON Oh! there is an organ playing in the street - a waltz too! I must leave off to listen.
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LORD BYRON Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure
LORD BYRON There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
LORD BYRON The very best of vineyards is the cellar
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LORD BYRON Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit c...
LORD BYRON That household virtue, most uncommon, / Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman.
LORD BYRON In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love
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LORD BYRON I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
LORD BYRON In short, he was a perfect cavalier, / And to his very valet seemed a hero.
LORD BYRON Half dust, half deity, unfit alike to sink or soar
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LORD BYRON The arena swims around him - he is gone,/ Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who w...
LORD BYRON I stood / Among them, but not of them; in a shroud / Of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
LORD BYRON Hatred is the madness of the heart
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LORD BYRON Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded that all the Apostles would have done as they did
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LORD BYRON I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; / A palace and a prison on each hand.
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