Fellows Quotes
291 quotes by 242 authors
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions…
— John Adams
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
— Josh Billings
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The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
— Bertolt Brecht
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Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.
— James Buchan
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I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good…
— Giacomo Casanova
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I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster…
— Octavio Paz
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By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher…
— Edwin Markham
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The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.
— Duke of Wellington
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That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.
— Edward Gordon Craig
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Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old dull scoundrel in…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing…
— Andre Gide
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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I have found that those people…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Outside among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward…
— Walt Whitman
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