[ but- Quotes ]
Showing search results for But+ Quotes - 2041 quotes about but+ - Dictionary Quotes
2041 quotesOn the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Goodness
George Orwell
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 600 votes
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
Progress
George Orwell
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 653 votes
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
Students
Sir William Osler
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 745 votes
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Ambition
Thomas Otway
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 724 votes
Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
Time and Time Management
Thomas Otway
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 749 votes
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Familiarity
Ouida
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 760 votes
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
Love
Mark Overby
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 722 votes
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
Achievement
Ovid
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 674 votes
My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
Hope
Ovid
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 609 votes
Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.
Originality
David Packer
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 582 votes
Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
Averages
Leroy ''Satchel'' Paige
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 624 votes
What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.
Knowledge
Leroy ''Satchel'' Paige
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 479 votes
Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Moderation
Thomas Paine
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 641 votes
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
Nicknames
Thomas Paine
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 690 votes
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
Truth
Mal Pancoast
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 492 votes
Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
Gratitude
Dorothy Parker
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 744 votes
This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
Books - Reading
Dorothy Parker
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 570 votes
You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.
Leaders and Leadership
Dorothy Parker
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 547 votes
You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.
Fear
Wendell Parsons
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 501 votes
It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
Ceremony
Blaise Pascal
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 771 votes
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Rest
Blaise Pascal
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 653 votes
We must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything.
Possibilities
Blaise Pascal
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 488 votes
Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end.
Experience
Walter Pater
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 466 votes
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Preparation
Joe Paterno
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 646 votes
An executive is a man who decides; sometimes he decides right, but always he decides.
Executives
John H. Patterson
Comment this quote | Permalink | Vote for this quote | 586 votes
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun