Best Thomas Proverbs
387 Thomas quotes by 280 unique authors
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If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.
— Paul Ryan
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What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common…
— Patti Smith
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I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to…
— George Strait
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Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
— Jonathan Swift
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I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas,…
— Marlo Thomas
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Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas…
— George Will
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Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about science. The best…
— Greg Graffin
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Historically, if you look at people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, people with disposable incomes have always been agricultural innovators.
— Sandra Lerner
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The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind…
— Neil Postman
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Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo,…
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Thomas More: ...And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?…
— Robert Bolt
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I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but…
— Jonathan Swift
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This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity…
— Robert Bolt
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There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination…
— Charles Dickens
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Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul .…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Quote from CARE OF THE SOUL...Thomas Moore ...to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with mindfullness and art,…
— Thomas Moore
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In a clutch or a corner, I tend to make a weapon out of what is near at hand. That can be anything from a…
— Dean Koontz
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I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And…
— Ray Bradbury
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probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
— John F. Kennedy
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Thomas Jefferson asked himself “In what country on earth would you rather live ” He first answered “Certainly in my own where are all my…
— Thomas Jefferson
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...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children…
— Sherman Alexie
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Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their leader. All you…
— Jon Stewart
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Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's…
— John Green
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The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world."--Odd Thomas
— Dean Koontz
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