Kept Quotes

2728 Kept quotes by 1970 unique authors

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its… — Joseph Addison
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered. — Plutarch
I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me. — Lincoln Steffens
If he who does not know kept silent, discord would cease. — Socrates
The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance... . The way is not beyond man; he who creates a way outside of… — Confucius
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. — Bertolt Brecht
Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept. — Lord Chesterfield
Since we are mortal, friendships are best kept to a moderate level, rather than sharing the very depths of our souls. — Euripides
It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are… — Thomas Paine
More men come to doom through dirty profits than are kept by them. — Sophocles
Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires,… — Gilbert Highet
... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail. — Billy Graham
I never had a hat, never wore one, but recently was given a brown suede duck-hunting hat. The moment I put it on I realized… — John Cage
And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny. — Roseanne Barr
Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and… — Edward Hoagland
No matter how I'm doing financially, the Depression has never disappeared from my consciousness. To this day, I hate waste. When neckties went from narrow… — Lee Iacocca
If I'd have gone to art school, or stayed in anthropology, I probably would have ended up back in film ... Mostly I just followed… — George Lucas
The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with… — Maxim Gorky
The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist… — Oswald Chambers
The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a… — Scott Caan
I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate. — Les Dawson
I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job. — Mary Chapin Carpenter
One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their own drugs. — Christopher McDougall
We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people who… — Eda LeShan

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