Wells Quotes
19806 Wells quotes by 8683 unique authors
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In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.
— J. G. Holland
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Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.
— George Santayana
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All is Ephemeral, fame and the famous as well.
— Marcus Aurelius
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To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.
— Mark Twain
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A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he…
— O. Henry
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When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.
— Aristotle
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They mention that it's a nonstop flight. Well, I must say I don't care for that sort of thing. Call me old fashioned, but I…
— George Carlin
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A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready…
— Charles Lamb
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Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.
— Plutarch
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Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play as well.
— John Cleese
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A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to see it done…
— James Boswell
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He's liked, but he's not well liked.
— Arthur Miller
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If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.
— Ken Blanchard
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Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and…
— Malcolm X
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Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be every where for good, let us confidently hope that all will…
— Abraham Lincoln
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And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they…
— Ronald Reagan
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If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly…
— Albert Einstein
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