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- Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.
- We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what…
- An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect.
- History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up…
- A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him…
- Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
- I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
- Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and…
- I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but…
- The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when…
- It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among…
- Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality
- Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again.
- A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity…
- I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way…
- But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain…
- It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs…
- Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
- Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer
- We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss…
- It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong