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When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes… — Alphonsus Liguori
Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit. — Charles Caleb Colton
To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered… — George Santayana
On one occasion when [William] Smart found him engrossed with his fundamental theory, he asked Eddington how many people he thought would understand what he… — Arthur Eddington
I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged… — Washington Irving
Fields' reply: He'd think I was a sissy. — W.C. Fields
When asked by a prospective donor how much he should give, the best reply is, "Give until you are proud." — Paul Ireland
Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the… — Amelia B. Edwards
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor… — Bertolt Brecht
Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. — Lauren Bacall
My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people,… — Lauren Bacall
A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades.… — Abbott Lawrence Lowell
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be… — John T. Flynn
Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired to reply, "If… — Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters… — Isadora Duncan
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened." — Dale Carnegie
Reply implicitly upon the old, old gospel. You need no other nets when you fish for men; those your Master has given you are strong… — Charles Spurgeon
Some people say 'what would happen if we had a Communist Chancellor of the Exchequer?' I would ask in reply, 'what would happen if he… — Hugh Dalton
I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in Gravity?" — Neil deGrasse Tyson
If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew within another's; if… — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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