Thinks Quotes

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Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is. — P.J. O'Rourke
When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then… — John Kenneth Galbraith
When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use… — Andy Rooney
A person remains immature, whatever his age, as long as he thinks of himself as an exception to the human race. — Harry Allen Overstreet
Every person thinks his own intellect perfect, and his own child handsome. — Saadi
Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better. — Sydney J. Harris
The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety… — Samuel Johnson
About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right. — Samuel Johnson
A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should. — William Feather
Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is. — Elbert Hubbard
Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems. — John Milton
Every age thinks its battle the most important of all. — Heinrich Heine
I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks. — Garth Brooks
... every little boy thinks he invented sin. — John Steinbeck
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks… — Ezra Pound
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty,… — Joseph Brodsky
You must not refuse any additional cups of tea under the following circumstances: if it is hot; if it is cold; if you are tired;… — George Mikes
But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story? — Jimmy Connors
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy… — Andrea Dworkin
What probably distorts everything in life is that one is convinced that one is speaking the truth because one says what one thinks. — Sacha Guitry

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