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William Makepeace Thackeray has 191 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
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Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the…
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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the…
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Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
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There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of…
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style…
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he…
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What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she…
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be…
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They're really aggressive. They're like roaches on bread - you drop some on the floor and, boom, they're on it.
— Kevin Garnett
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We lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It's further east than Hell's Kitchen, and back then…
— Bob Cousy
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We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel.... Force is all they…
— Rafael Eitan
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My wife is such a bad cook, if we leave dental floss in the kitchen the roaches hang themselves.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.
— John Leguizamo
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Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.
— James Sallis
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What do the animals do in the zoo? That's the same thing that I do in my cell. I play with myself.…
— Charles Manson
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I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as…
— Don King
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I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with…
— Abbey Lincoln
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I was devastated. I'm still devastated to this day. When talent like that disappears in a flash, you can't believe it. You…
— Helen Merrill
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I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic…
— Charles Mingus
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