Thick Quotes
693 quotes by 586 authors
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Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something…
— Pietro Aretino
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Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
— Samuel Beckett
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Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.
— David Beckham
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The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
— Yogi Berra
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I couldn't figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time.
— Sara Blakely
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of…
— Daniel Boone
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There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms…
— Alain de Botton
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The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
— Samuel Butler
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Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
— Lord Chesterfield
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In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the…
— Ian Anderson
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I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of…
— Joseph Dalton Hooker
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The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't.
— Jon Franklin
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When you're in the thick of raising your kids by yourself, you tend to keep a running list of everything you think you're doing wrong.…
— Connie Schultz
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Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the…
— Mark Twain
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God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and…
— Sylvia Plath
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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend: the…
— Al Alvarez
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The general must be the first in the toils and fatigues of the army. In the heat of summer he does not spread his parasol…
— Sun Tzu
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Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind…
— Henry Rollins
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I see, when I bend close, how each leaflet of a climbing rose is bordered with frost, the autumn counterpart of the dewdrops of summer…
— Edwin Way Teale
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Is hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a…
— Brendan Shanahan
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