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Hilaire Belloc has 84 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for…
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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the…
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We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the…
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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
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Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
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An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
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Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
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Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.
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Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us…
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Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff…
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
— Jean Cocteau
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Matt and I have set a date. Matt and I will tie the knot New Years Day in the town of Swampscott,…
— Ben Affleck
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Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the…
— Philip Sidney
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I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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A knot you are of damned bloodsuckers.
— William Shakespeare
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Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by…
— Omar Khayyam
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As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to…
— Thomas Merton
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A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I believe in tying the marriage knot, as long as it's around the woman's neck
— W.C. Fields
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When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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