"Clumsy jesting is no joke." — Aesop
"Clumsy jesting is no joke."
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170 Quotes by Aesop
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Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
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A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
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Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
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The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
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Please all, and you will please none.
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Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth -…
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A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we…
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More Clumsy Quotes
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So…
— Ingrid Bergman
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If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
— Carlos Castaneda
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Thus, though I have heard of successful military operations that were clumsy but swift, cleverness has never been seen associated…
— Sun Tzu
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The suit was so clumsy, being pressurized, it was impossible to get two hands comfortably on the handle and it's…
— Alan Shepard
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However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.
— Peter Weiss
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The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be…
— George V. Higgins
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Truth is a clumsy servant that breaks the dishes while washing them.
— Karl Kraus
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile…
— J. B. Priestley
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I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person,…
— George R. R. Martin
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Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.
— William Klein
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