Thing Quotes

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What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough. — Bertolt Brecht
True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy… — E. W. Howe
There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one. — E. W. Howe
A child's nature is too serious a thing to admit of its being regarded as a mere appendage to another being. — Charles Lamb
The thing that hasn't changed, and I don't think will ever change, is that the operative word in music is "play." You have to have… — Hans Zimmer
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other… — Oscar Wilde
It's funny. I'm attracted to things that don't have any impact on life. People say I've done a great thing for women. I don't think… — Joan Benoit
But I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to… — George W. Bush
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow,… — Charles Lamb
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. — Bob Hope
Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or… — Oscar Wilde
We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being… — Albert Camus
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of… — Charles Caleb Colton
There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream… — Gelett Burgess
The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence. — Henry David Thoreau
A thing said walks in immortality if it has been said well. — Pindar
Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity. — Eric Hoffer
He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating… — Clement of Alexandria
To inspire love is a woman's greatest ambition, believe me. It's the one thing woman care about and there's no woman so proud that she… — Moliere
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another. — George Bernard Shaw
There is such a thing as man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it… — Woodrow Wilson

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