When One Quotes

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Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I… — A. C. Benson
One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest… — Friedrich Nietzsche
When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten; when the belt fits, the belly is forgotten; when the heart is right, "for" and "against" are… — Zhuangzi
It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one. — Berkeley Breathed
When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws. — Baron de Montesquieu
Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part. — Oscar Wilde
When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist. — Mencius
One can't be angry when one looks at a penguin. — John Ruskin
I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that… — Giambattista Valli
The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid. — Akkineni Nagarjuna
When one loves animals and children too much, one loves them against human beings. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so… — Laozi
When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire… — Saint John Chrysostom
What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely… — Louis L'Amour
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
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them. — Andre Gide
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the… — Lord Chesterfield

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