Best One Hundred Proverbs
333 One Hundred quotes by 287 unique authors
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We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do…
— Dalai Lama
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Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of…
— Terry Pratchett
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Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my…
— Flann O'Brien
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All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . .…
— John F. Kennedy
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There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the…
— Jim Goad
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It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred…
— Confucius
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I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours.…
— Meg Cabot
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Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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At least we both know how shitty the world is. You wearing a beard as a mask to disguise it. I wearing my tired smile.…
— Jack Spicer
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You've used up all your school sick days," he said, persuing my file. "You've requested to leave school one hundred and thirty days out of…
— Ellen Schreiber
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My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where…
— Melina Marchetta
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I start to see that I surround myself with broken people; more broken than me. Ah, yes, let me count your cracks. Let's see, one…
— Julie Gregory
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Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this…
— Neal Stephenson
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All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a molecule of chlorophyll…
— Annie Dillard
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Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse reflection of how good you were in a previous…
— Chuck Klosterman
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Imagine the earth’s population of six billion people reduced to just one hundred representatives. Statistically, that makes 30 white, 70 non-white. It means 6 people…
— Grant Morrison
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She was the most beautiful thing you ever saw. She was radiant. And she was wearing this necklace... When you see the necklace in the…
— Sophie Kinsella
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If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you…
— Jasper Fforde
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Brigan," she said, annoyed that he had not understood. "I’ll always be beautiful. Look at me. I have one hundred and sixty two bug bites,…
— Kristin Cashore
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The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with…
— Ray Bradbury
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Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and…
— Anton Chekhov
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Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what…
— Aldous Huxley
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You’re not a one hundred dollar bill, not everyone is going to like you.
— Meg Cabot
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