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"'Good luck, Mr President,' I said to him. 'As I told you when I named you, I know the country is going to be in good hands with you in the Oval Office.'" Richard Milhouse Nixon 2.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"...it was always said of him [Scrooge] that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us!" Charles Dickens Rate this Quote
"...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned." John Holt 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"...the more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much." W. H. Murray Rate this Quote
"A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults." Charles Kingsley 4.7647 average rating Rate this Quote
"A book is a friend; a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still; and there are not many friends who know enough to do that." B. A. Billingsly 4.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." Fred Allen 4.5625 average rating Rate this Quote
"A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength." Marjorie Holmes 4.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity." Robert Frost 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance." Leonardo Da Vinci 4.9000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful." Primo Levi 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him." Aesop 4.7931 average rating Rate this Quote
"A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him." Anwar el-Sadat 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway." Father Jerome Cummings 4.5833 average rating Rate this Quote
"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." Elbert Hubbard 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.'" Alan Marshall Beck 4.1667 average rating Rate this Quote
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but awhile he knows something." Wilson Mizner 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. 'You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too.'" Jake Johanson 4.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it." Miles Dewey Davis 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men." Roald Dahl 4.7600 average rating Rate this Quote
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