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"Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin." (Bessie) Lillian 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"'And yet,' demanded Councilor Barlow, 'what's he done? Has he ever done a day's work in his life? What great cause is he identified with?' 'He's identified,' said the first speaker, 'with the great cause of cheering us all up.'" (Enoch) Arnold Bennett 2.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas." (John) Calvin Coolidge 4.4444 average rating Rate this Quote
"If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress." (John) Calvin Coolidge 2.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first." (Justin) Brooks Atkinson 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty." (Justin) Brooks Atkinson 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." (Louis) Hector Berlioz 4.5789 average rating Rate this Quote
"Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one has not time to write down." (Louis) Hector Berlioz 4.7143 average rating Rate this Quote
"I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day." (Matthew) Heywood 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction." A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti Rate this Quote
"All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape." A(rthur) C(hristopher) Benson 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time." A. E. Houseman 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered." A. Edward Newton 1.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done." Aaron Burr 4.2857 average rating Rate this Quote
"I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen." Abd Er-Rahman III 3.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Abraham Lincoln 4.7222 average rating Rate this Quote
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Abraham Lincoln 4.4444 average rating Rate this Quote
"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die." Abraham Lincoln 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day." Abraham Lincoln 4.7895 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: And this, too, shall pass away." Abraham Lincoln 4.3000 average rating Rate this Quote
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