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Once Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.
- I once saw a photograph of a large herd of wild elephants in Central Africa Seeing an airplane for the first time, and all in…
- A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself…
- If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.
- Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
- Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet?…
- No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and for all, to…
- Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly the case, and every housemaid expects at least once a…
More Once Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins