Best Followed Proverbs
1037 Followed quotes by 874 unique authors
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What I have learned about corporate capitalism, roughly, is that it is an act of theft, by and large, through which a very few live…
— Karl Hess
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Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by…
— Chester A. Arthur
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Battles are followed by years of famine.
— Laozi
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In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
— Laozi
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With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents of East Europe's…
— Charles S. Maier
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If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed…
— Marcus J. Ranum
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My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped…
— Emanuel Celler
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My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
— Simon Newcomb
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Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Have you taught a Sunday School class and felt when you finished that you had really taught someone some principle of the gospel that had…
— Unknown Author
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My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I felt betrayed by him, extremely betrayed. He made me believe that if I followed a certain protocol of supplements and different drugs that I…
— Kelli White
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Some determined advocates of the vegetable system maintain, that the teeth and stomach of the monkey correspond, in structure, very closely with that of man,…
— Sarah Josepha Hale
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To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion? First,…
— L. Tom Perry
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As Christians, I challenge you. Have a great aim - have a high standard - make Jesus your ideal...make Him an ideal not merely to…
— Eric Liddell
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Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And…
— Robert Browning
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In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."].
— Paul Reiser
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But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed…
— Eriq La Salle
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Force is followed by loss of strength. This is not the way of the Tao. That which goes against the Tao comes to an early…
— Laozi
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Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions…
— Molly Ivins
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I followed the war wherever I could reach it.
— Martha Gellhorn
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A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.
— Evelyn Underhill
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Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath…
— Benjamin Franklin
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CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch of differentiation, and…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often cause you to explain the bug to yourself. Sometimes it…
— Brian Kernighan
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