Shakes Quotes
783 quotes by 646 authors
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Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its…
— Samuel Johnson
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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
— Oscar Wilde
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The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the electrons sitting around…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I…
— Mark Twain
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So where did these cravings come from? I concluded it's the baby ordering in. Prenatal takeout. Even without ever being in a restaurant, fetuses develop…
— Paul Reiser
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Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is voting for the…
— William Proxmire
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The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny,…
— James Madison
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Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination…
— Hilaire Belloc
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Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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When God gets ready to shake America, He may not take the Ph.D. and the D.D. God may choose a country boy ... God may…
— Billy Graham
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I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you.
— Seve Ballesteros
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The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.
— Allen Wheelis
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If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
— Garry Winogrand
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My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.
— Marie-Antoine Careme
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A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.
— Alec Guinness
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Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
— Samuel Johnson
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I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.
— Bear Bryant
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When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the…
— Denton Welch
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