Miscellaneous Quotes - Page 3

• Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. . . . Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Easy, Natural

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• A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

  George Herbert

  Guests, Conversation

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.13

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• The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lonely, People, Laughing

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• If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

  Ben Jonson

  Sick, Neurosis, Illness

  Ben Jonson (1999). “Five Plays”, p.78, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

  Herbert Turnbull

  Atoms, Mathematics, Fingers

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• I feel really good in the teacher role.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Teacher, Roles, Feels

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• If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable.

  Rajneesh

  Enjoy Life, Incapable, Conditions

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• Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

  Lisa Alther

  Inspirational, Time, Use

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.304, Open Road Media

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• Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.

  Thomas Sowell

  Deception, Littles, Way

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.323, Hoover Press

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• I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Educational, Neglect, Duty

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• A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.

  George Santayana

  Play, Soul, World

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies”

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• Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.

  Bruce Feirstein

  Flames, Never Settle, Settling

  Bruce Feirstein, Lionel Trippett (1982). “Real Men Don't Eat Quiche”, New English Library

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• The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.

  Albert Ellis

  Law, Healthy, Guilt

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• The unlived life is not worth examining.

  Old Tom Morris

  Perception, Life Is, Examining

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• The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.

  George Harrison

  Mistake, Self, People

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• I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Giving, Opinion, Be Good

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• If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Moments, Ifs

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• All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  Peace, Men, Dinner

  Oscar W. Firkins (1934). “Memoirs and Letters”, p.94, U of Minnesota Press

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• Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

  Benjamin Franklin

  World, Constant

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.397

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• I want to go down in history in a chapter marked miscellaneous because the writers could find no other way to categorize me In this world where classification is key I want to erase the straight lines So I can be me

  Staceyann Chin

  Keys, Way, World

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• I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.

  Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

  Grammar, Emperor, Roman Emperor

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• A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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• Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Blood, Democracy, Sometimes

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• You are no better than you should be.

  Francis Beaumont

  Literature, Should, Garters

  Francis Beaumont (1718). “The Coxcomb. A Comedy, Etc”, p.39

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• Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

  George Steiner

  Men, Apathy, Indifference

  George Steiner (2010). “Language and Silence”, p.225, Faber & Faber

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