Mark Quotes

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Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its… — Henry Ward Beecher
Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly. — Benjamin Franklin
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy,… — Olive Schreiner
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one. — Henry Clay Payne
Time marks us while we are marking time. — Theodore Roethke
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst. — Martina Navratilova
The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his being, seeks rather to read,… — Bernard Iddings Bell
Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love… — Dianne Feinstein
As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose. — William Shakespeare
All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling. — Margaret Fuller
We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe... — Bertrand Russell
Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour. — Oprah Winfrey
But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise. — Alexander Pope
Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them more impressive than… — Erwin Schrodinger
I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One… — Keith Richards
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation. — Marya Mannes

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