Taint Quotes
52 quotes by 46 authors
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
— Samuel Butler
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His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.
— Mark Twain
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Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint of vanity, the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts…
— John Barth
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Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others…
— Eric Hoffer
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The taint of arrogance will I not know...
— Walter Russell
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Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that…
— Michel de Montaigne
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& all your friends telling you stories that you often misinterpret and taint all the images of yo Mr Perfect
— Drake
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The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance
— Anna Funder
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The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew…
— Joseph Conrad
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It only takes one lie to taint your entire testimony.
— Jim Rohn
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Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.
— Robert Browning
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If beings knew, as I know, the results of sharing gifts, they would not enjoy their gifts without sharing them with others, nor would the…
— Gautama Buddha
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I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.
— Mark Hyman, M.D.
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But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into…
— Nancy Kerrigan
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In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in…
— James F. Cooper
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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not…
— Meister Eckhart
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I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint…
— John Austin Baker
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Some day you will read in the papers that D.L. Moody of East Northfield, is dead. Don't you believe a word of it! At that…
— Dwight L. Moody
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When we resent someone in some way we need to "be on the alert" that even innocent gestures on their part can become suspect to…
— Cindy Wright
Who Wrote These Taint Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 52 Taint Quotes, led by these top contributors: