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226 quotesYour friend is your needs answered.
Friends and Friendship
Kahlil Gibran
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Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.
Trouble
Ellen Glasgow
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If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
Achievement
A. P. Gouthey
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The 1980s are to debt what the 1960s were to sex. The 1960s left a hangover. So will the 1980s.
Debt
James Grant
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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
Politicians and Politics
Horace Greeley
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An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
Fidelity
Sacha Guitry
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
Death and Dying
Vance Havner
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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
Speculation
William Hazlitt
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If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
Happiness
Gabriel Heatter
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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Words
Ernest Hemingway
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There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
Greatness
George Herbert
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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
Reality
Hermann Hesse
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
History and Historians
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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If food were free, why work?
Work
Doug Horton
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If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.
Wish and Wishing
Doug Horton
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Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
Promises
Edgar Watson Howe
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
Truth
Edgar Watson Howe
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Of course drugs were fun.
Drugs
Anjelica Huston
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People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
Lust
Aldous Huxley
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Rulers were made to be broken.
Law and Lawyers
Michael Isenberg
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Were we directed from Washington when to sow, & when to reap, we should soon want bread.
Uncategorised
Thomas Jefferson
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The good days weren't really so good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.
The future
Billy Joel
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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
Music
Samuel Johnson
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Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
Labor
Samuel Johnson
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Imagination
Samuel Johnson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun