The Irish are a fair people- they never speak well of one another
Samuel Johnson
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The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another
SAMUEL JOHNSON The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)
TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.
HAROLD BLOOM Invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.” ~ Samuel John...
J.J. MCAVOY During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoyin...
FRED ALLEN During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoyin...
FRED ALLEN Quoting Samuel Johnson: "Men know that ...
JAMES BOSWELL Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notio...
JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to thr...
EDWARD M. HALLOWELL Never speak loudly to one another unless the house is on fire
H. W. THOMPSON The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another
WILLIAM HAZLITT …People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to ...
KATHLEEN WINTER To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we h...
DAVID MCCULLOUGH The Olympic Games are about achievement, which is only possible if the athletes are in peak health. ...
BRIAN PERKINS If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
MARIA EDGEWORTH This partnership reflects a shared philosophy in caring for people, whether they are athletes or, in...
BRIAN PERKINS I would never accuse the Irish people of being in any way stupid.
ENDA KENNY The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small ...
SAMUEL BECKETT ...legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority hav...
MALCOLM GLADWELL People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - ju...
MATTHEW BOURNE In the past, the [Federal Communications Commission] repeatedly has expressed its commitment to port...
WALTER MCCORMICK Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say -...
TOM PAULIN To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!
SOPHOCLES If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself.
BLAISE PASCAL The fish are always selling well. They are the only one of God’s creatures that never disappoints.
MARTIN DAVIES One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracle...
DIANE FROLOV AND ANDREW SCHNEIDER We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enou...
RICHARD M. NIXON We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another -- until we speak quietly eno...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.
MARY DEASY It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... o...
GUNTHER GRASS I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... o...
GUNTER GRASS A lot of people like to justify women's supporting role in sports media by saying, 'Well, th...
KATIE NOLAN Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned...
FRANCINE PROSE A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
FIONA SHAW Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.
ANDREA CORR Sometimes, people never stood a chance in the beginning. Or they might have made a mistake. When peo...
HANNAH KENT They say actions speak louder than words, but actions don't speak. People speak, and people are ...
JENNETTE MCCURDY It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear. -Thoreau.
THOREAU That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute the...
LARA FLYNN BOYLE I can go from one thing to another, like jazz to country western, from country western to Irish, fro...
BERNIE WORRELL It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Seniors are attracted to the simplicity of the storefronts, ... They would rather speak one-on-one w...
SCOTT PHILLIPS Some girls never know what they are going to do from one husband to another.
TOM MASSON Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.
ENDA KENNY I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG How is it that in Ireland, where they never had any knowledge of God but, always, until now, cherish...
SAINT PATRICK As they say, one thing led to another, and, ultimately, the British and Irish governments asked me t...
GEORGE J. MITCHELL Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who ...
A.J. DARKHOLME I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
LILLIAN HELLMAN If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in...
SAMUEL BUTLER All around us are people, of all classes, of all nationalities, of all ages. For three days these pe...
AGATHA CHRISTIE I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to ...
ELLEN GOODMAN The statistics may show we strike more blacks, but it's not because they're black, ... It's because ...
BILL HILL It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how enti...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The year 2005 was a solid one for Johnson and Johnson, despite significant challenges.
WILLIAM WELDON Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish ...
TOBIAS HILL This is just another confirmation that redistricting brought about fair representation for the peopl...
DAN ALLEN Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged.
PROVERB What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get us...
ORSON SCOTT CARD At the end of this journey, it seems to me that reconciling the long shadows cast by the uneasy past...
ERNA PARIS You can never escape who you are, never truly anonymise yourself. Even if you never speak to anyone,...
GREG BAXTER Some people are so boring that they are just well preserved fossils which never animates.
YAMIN RASHEED There's only one definitive offer for Guidant, and that's the one from Johnson & Johnson.
JEFF LEEBAW There's only one definitive offer for Guidant and that's the one from Johnson & Johnson.
JEFF LEEBAW Immortals are never alien to one another.
HOMER Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
BLAISE PASCAL There are not many Irish people playing tennis!
GORAN IVANISEVIC They speak very well of you".
- "They speak very well of everybody."
- "That so bad?"
IAIN M. BANKS I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. ...
TAMORA PIERCE It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elem...
ANNIE LENNOX It's another instance of abuse of people who speak out against the government, for whatever reason. ...
MICKEY SPIEGEL Hoffer's law: When people are free to do what they want they usually imitate one another.
UNKNOWN I think women are in much the same place in the Irish theater as they are everywhere else. Certainly...
GARRY HYNES We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Tom Johnson played extremely well.
JAY HOPSON Johnson, for starters, was not good at the sittings. At one, he fell asleep. At another sitting, he ...
FRED VOSS When I think of Irish, I think of hardworking people. Irish make the American dream come true.
DANNY MURPHY Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country dow...
JOE BIDEN You wouldn't want to run a race that wasn't fair for everyone. I'd rather wait for good conditions t...
EMILY BRYDON If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself
BLAISE PASCAL If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.
BLAISE PASCAL Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796 [Dr. Johnson to a Q...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Most Chinese could only speak one local dialect before 1949 when New China was founded. More and mor...
CHEN ZHANGTAI I think Jack Johnson had a great tournament, I think (goalie) Cory Schneider had a great tournament....
WALT KYLE When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.
BRUNO TONIOLI They are being buried as we speak, 50 of them, all in the one grave.
ROSETTE LERIAS My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an ...
TODD RUNDGREN When people sell funds from one family to another -- say, Fidelity to Janus -- they know they've tri...
FRANK DEGEN People were dismissive of the data. They are continuing to buy dollars as we speak.
JEFF GLADSTEIN If you are in Bangkok, you will find that people there will never speak to you without joining their...
AKSHAY KUMAR People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be t...
ROY BLUNT Johnson & Johnson is negotiating in public, and that's never a good sign. We don't expect them to ge...
NANCY HAVENS Everyone who wanted an opportunity to speak, got a chance to speak. These are people who had an oppo...
PATRICIA WRIGHT The people in my building, they understand. They think what we are asking for is fair.
CARLOS PADILLA
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SAMUEL JOHNSON Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: b...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
SAMUEL JOHNSON No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.
SAMUEL JOHNSON While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
SAMUEL JOHNSON He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.
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