Twin Quotes
293 Twin quotes by 242 unique authors
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Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone…
— Nicholas Meyer
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A single person is a manageable entity, whom you can either make friends with or leave alone. But half of a married couple is not…
— Jan Struther
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged…
— B. C. Forbes
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I…
— Taiye Selasi
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You know how they do that effect in movies, where they make it look like you have a twin, but it's really just the same…
— Zach Braff
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The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
— Mark Twain
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Information technology alone cannot provide us an absolute shield against its evil twin disinformation technology. Our only protection is law, and that protection is available…
— Paul Starr
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In form and feature, face and limb, I grew so like my brother That folks got taking me for him And each for one another.…
— Henry Sambrooke Leigh
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Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.
— Friedrich Ebert
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Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
— William Dean Howells
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Light is everything in the world to men's eyes Light thirsts after light yes, the soul, twin to the stars moves through space to find,…
— Gunvor Hofmo
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If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but…
— John Donne
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Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.
— Clive James
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Effort is the siamese twin of success
— Shane Koyczan
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The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle…
— Neon Hitch
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It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance…
— Alasdair MacIntyre
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No matter how great the script, the actual film will only be a distant relative of it - it will never be an identical twin.
— Peter Straughan
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I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have thematic similarities - but 'Paladin' took me much deeper…
— Mark Frost
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When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for…
— Betsy Lerner
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Humility and Gratitude are the twin characteristics of happiness.
— Richard C. Edgley
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The magnificent thing about her [Amelia Earhart] is, in the eyes of the world, she simply never died. Her fear never witnessed, her failure never…
— Josh Gates
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Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.
— Andy Hargreaves
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Despair the twin-born of devotion.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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I know whether or not I am confused most readily by noticing--being mindful of--my capacity for feeling caring concern. ... when I feel myself in…
— Sylvia Boorstein
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The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.
— Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Who Wrote These Twin Quotes
242 authors contributed a total of 293 Twin Quotes, led by these top contributors: