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'Tis a fine thing for children to learn to make verse; but when they come to be men, they must speak like other men, or else they will be laughed at


John Selden

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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FEREIDOON YAZDI When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their id...
WALTER LIPPMANN To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
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"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS They Learn to speak... and when they were at level "AVERAGE", they started making the rules and star...
DEYTH BANGER Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the...
BILLY SUNDAY Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
MAX LERNER Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
CZESłAW MIłOSZ The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.
DONALD JUSTICE Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.
WILLIAM PENN Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants
WILLIAM PENN Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
WILLIAM PENN Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.
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NEIL GAIMAN Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior
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DOLORAS CARTER Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by o...
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ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
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JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
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JUSTINA CHEN A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
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AMELIA EARHART Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they...
NICOLAS CHAMFORT Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they...
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AL GOLDSTEIN The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD We were created with the ability and the inclination to admire beauty. We should, however, do our be...
RON BRACKIN Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of defeat, an...
WILLIAM MORRIS Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
JONATHAN SWIFT Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is alte...
FRANCIS BACON Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is alte...
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KRISTA ALLEN Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurt...
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JOSEPH CONRAD Men are like home baked bread. They need to bake in the oven for a while but you gotta get ‘em whi...
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MARY DALY Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
WALTER LIPPMANN I have seen manners that make a similar impression with personal beauty; that give the like exhilara...
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TOBA BETA Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ...
MENCIUS It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
WINSTON CHURCHILL There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they...
ERNEST HELLO There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when th...
ERNEST HELLO But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you beca...
D.H. LAWRENCE If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the ma...
MARIA MONTESSORI If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the m...
MARIA MONTESSORI I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting hon...
KURT VONNEGUT Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love a...
GERMANY KENT Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or...
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ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
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THOMAS S. MONSON Be true to yourself.Let your belief & thoughts for right cause are not compromised at any cost thoug...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
MICHAELA D. If you can put your mind to it anything can be achieved but to pull something out of nothing althoug...
GARY F EVANS... There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
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CHRISTOPHER WREN Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by...
WILLIAM PENN Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by...
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and...
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PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice...
EDMUND BURKE When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifi...
EDMUND BURKE When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrific...
EDMUND BURKE As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines
JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be
RICHARD J. NEEDHAM Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.
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JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
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JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
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JOHN MCAFEE I can never consent to being dictated to.
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JOHN BOLTON I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three...
JOHN BOLTON A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get...
JOHN BOLTON The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.
JOHN BOLTON I don't do carrots.
JOHN BOLTON My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that sma...
JOHN BOLTON Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
JOHN BOLTON Reform is not a one-night stand.
JOHN BOLTON I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because t...
JOHN BOLTON There is no such thing as the United Nations.
JOHN BOLTON Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States...
JOHN BOLTON There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuin...
JOHN BOLTON We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing ...
JOHN BOLTON