Best Sayings Quotes
132 Sayings quotes by 95 unique authors
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Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes…
— John Calvin
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There is in every truth a wise saying, and in every contradiction, two wise sayings.
— Robert Breault
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There are three sayings I live by, and one of them is 'The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.'…
— Ken Hendricks
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Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.
— Maya Angelou
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There are many female gods recognized and honored by the tribes and Nations. Femaleness was highly valued, both respected and feared, and all social institutions…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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Most of us have collections of sayings we live by. . . . Whenever words fly up at me from the printed page as I…
— Ray Stannard Baker
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One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.
— Robert Breault
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The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the…
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly…
— Norman Douglas
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Old Madame du Deffand and her friends talked for fifty years without stopping. And of it all, what remains? Perhaps three witty sayings. So that…
— Virginia Woolf
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The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.
— Akkineni Nagarjuna
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A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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I prefer sayings over jokes.
— Robert Ballard
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It's easier to make up sayings people like to hear than sayings they like to heed.
— Larry Wall
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Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking on the complexity…
— Alfonso X of Castile
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One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
— Robert M. Gates
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Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize…
— Frederick William Robertson
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The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places,…
— Pablo Picasso
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[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
— Emily Dickinson
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One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist…
— Desmond Tutu
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
— George Eliot
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
— William Feather
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
— Arthur Helps
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