Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.
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HANK AARON If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
SHMUEL YOSEF AGNON Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom ...
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SHMUEL YOSEF AGNON We know when a man can't milk a cow, and this man can't milk a cow,
PATRICK MANNING He who wants milk should not sit in the middle of a field and wait for a cow to back up to him
PROVERB If you are truly persevering in virtue, what is the place of a haughty attitude? The cow which has n...
SIDDHA NAGARJUNA No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte y ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surrounding...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner...
NORM TOMLINSON Woe unto you if you have come to this world just to fear man,for man is nothing but ordinary dust wi...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power of man;Man does not only have the power to accomplish great & unbelievable things in life,...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
PROVERB Milk the cow, but do not pull off the udder.
GREEK PROVERB Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que atrae nuestra mirada es la luz, p...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget
it.
UNKNOWN Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bul...
SAMUEL JOHNSON If you do not milk the cow fully, it falls sick.
LALU PRASAD YADAV Religion, the great milch cow, has given many kicks, but never mind,it gives a great deal of milk.
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Milk the cow that standeth still
PROVERB Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe n...
BLAISE PASCAL Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe n...
BLAISE PASCAL Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is...
RENé DESCARTES If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man. This is a big statement and it so...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Metal rusts, music lasts forever.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
OGDEN NASH The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.
OGDEN NASH The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk
OGDEN NASH God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop wh...
CRISS JAMI A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the cul...
ALICIA MACHADO To say that a farm boy knows how to milk a cow is to say that we can send him out to the barn with a...
THOMAS SOWELL O! green bottle come & take my frustrations away,so says the drunk.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys...
H. L. MENCKEN I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN She washed he hands,then looked at my side. "you haven't even had it stitched?" She said incredulous...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Solange wir Kinder sind, denken wir nur selten an die Zukunft. Diese Unschuld ermöglicht es uns, un...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The Spaniards owned the cow, but others drank the milk.
EDUARDO GALEANO For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not die
he does not die a death of sham...
OSCAR WILDE Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG It's said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers. That's false, tragically f...
JACOB BRONOWSKI Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he think...
ALPHONSE KARR Every man has three characters-that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks h...
ALPHONSE KARR (1808-1890) Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks...
ALPHONSE KARR A wise man remembers his friends at all times; a fool, only when he has need of them.
TURKISH PROVERB Baby rats need rat milk, baby cats need cat milk, baby dogs need dog milk, baby humans need human mi...
MANGO WODZAK Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what h...
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH What a man says drunk he has thought sober.
FLEMISH PROVERB A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once
JOSH BILLINGS Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We can't put it back in the cow, you know.
AUNT BEE TAYLOR She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
JEAN PAUL It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, w...
VICTOR HUGO In each medium - popular music, literature, and visual art, respectively - the woman has broken form...
STACEY D'ERASMO There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN like a drop of ink in a glass of milk
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