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“Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.”

Men Persons Laughing Too Much Share Ignorance News Laughter Witty Wit Conceit Jest

Book:The Works of George Herbert: Poems

Source: The Works of George Herbert: Poems

“My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.”

Knows Persons Mother Most Amazing Amazing Person

Author:J. J. Abrams

“Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.”

Persons Religion Obvious Mystic Puzzled

Book:Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

“What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary that a child should comprehend everything it reads.”

Thinking Should Children Persons Reading Understanding Wise Wise Person Blockheads

Book:The Doctor, &c

Source: The Doctor, &c

“In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.”

Persons Age Reading Reader Presses Instruction Polite Pulpit

Book:The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: with a biographical memoir of the author, written expressly for this edition

Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: with a biographical memoir of the author, written expressly for this edition

“I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.”

Persons Language Development Evidence Definitions Makers Dictionary

Author:William Stafford

“Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.”

May Persons Able Artist Accepting Standards

Author:William Stafford

“The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called Jesus Christ; and if there are no such things as prophecies of any such person in the Old Testament, the New Testament.”

Ifs Persons Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Prophecy Testament Testimony New Testament Old Testament Credulity

Book:The Theological Works ...: The Most Complete Ed. Ever Pub

Source: The Theological Works ...: The Most Complete Ed. Ever Pub

“The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.”

Persons Roles Retirement Retired

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lucky person.”

Feels Persons Whole Lucky Smooth Lucky Person

Author:Edward Furlong

“Every once in a while your world stands still... There are certain friendships that are so important they leave a mark on you long after the person is gone.”

World Persons Long Stills Important Certain Friendship Gone Mark

Author:Art Buchwald

“Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.”

Wells Persons Ability Limits Committed Selected Axioms

Author:Tom Peters

“Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.”

Ifs Persons Accounts Newspapers Good Writers

Author:Bob Schieffer

“To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.”

Love Persons Destiny Fragments Extra Effort

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.”

Persons Doe Fans Baseball Claims Method Score Fraud Simplest Baseball Fans

Author:Thomas Boswell

“To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.”

Persons Self Example Subtle Devices Indulge Neurotic Atonement Accusation Indulge In

Author:Alfred Adler

“It is of no small commendation to manage a little well. To live well in abundance is the praise of the estate, not of the person. I will study more how to give a good account of my little, than how to make it more.”

Giving Wells Littles Persons Economy Study Accounts Praise Manage Abundance Estates Live Well Commendation

Book:The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

Source: The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

“The cycle of life is death, decomposition and regeneration, and a person who wants to stop killing animals is actually anti-life because it's only in death that life can be regenerated.”

Want Persons Life Is Animal Killing Cycles Regeneration Cycle Of Life Decomposition Killing Animals

Author:Joel Salatin

“As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.”

Persons Purpose Company Invigorating

Author:Jon Miller

“Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.”

Persons Difficult Attitude Special Dying Tasks Died Accomplished Admiration Death And Dying Difficult Tasks

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.”

Persons Figures Poet Musician Painter Landscape Sunset Music Love Love Poetry Nightingales Musician Love Love Picture

Author:Andre Malraux

“There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.”

Ifs Persons Wish Power Degrees Available Drawing Decent Latin Arithmetic

Book:The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners

Source: The Elements of Drawing: In Three Letters to Beginners

“When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.”

Persons Young Old Woman

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience.”

Persons Ideas My Own

Book:On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

“To deschool means to abolish the power of one person to oblige another.”

Mean Persons Abolish Power Of One

Author:Ivan Illich

“A healthy person goes 'Yes,' 'No,' and 'Whoopee!' An unhealthy person goes 'Yes, but,' 'No, but,' and 'No whoopee.”

Persons Health Healthy Unhealthy Healthy Person

Author:Eric Berne

“My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person, born on the hottest day of the year, conceived on a Christmas Eve, made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.”

Source: Living Out Loud

“A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.”

Way Persons Book Moments Values Fall Lucky Independent Fortune Accidents Precise Unlucky Happy Accidents

Book:The Works of Walter Pater

Source: The Works of Walter Pater

“What's not realized about good novelists is that they're as competitive as good athletes. They study each other - where the other person is good and where the person is less good. Writers are like that but don't admit it.”

Persons Study Competition Athlete Novelists Good Writers Good Athlete

Author:Norman Mailer

“I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.”

People Persons Made Important Wanted Mother Strong Inspiring Camps Very Strong Survived Influential Influential Person

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Tomorrow you may want to persuade somebody to do something. Before you speak, pause and as yourself, "How can I make this person want to do it?”

Want May Persons Speak Tomorrow Pauses

Book:How to win friends & influence people

Source: How to win friends & influence people

“Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.”

World Persons Home Passion Emotion Health Habit Hatred Sick Victim Hospitals Places Of Peace

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.”

Ifs Persons Found Figures Shadow Originals Starting Starting Point Strangeness

Author:Paul Gauguin

“A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.”

Knows Persons Doe Care Desire Causes Whim Wise Women Whimsy

Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“Still, it's nice to have one person who knows all your secrets.”

Knows Persons Stills Secret Nice Dirty Secrets

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.”

World May Persons Said Character Kings Possession

Book:Character

Source: Character

“A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls.”

Wells Mean Persons Soul Care Who Cares Using Words

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“I am an ordinary person, but carried to extremes.”

Persons Ordinary Extremes Ordinary Person

Book:Fay Weldon Omnibus: Collected Works of Fay Weldon

Source: Fay Weldon Omnibus: Collected Works of Fay Weldon

“Taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good visual taste and good taste in people and taste in ideas.”

People Persons Ideas Taste Visuals Good Taste

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.”

Writing Persons History Advice

Book:Historical Essays and Studies: Great Event

Source: Historical Essays and Studies: Great Event

“Tomorrow's God says that every church is 'his church,' and every faith is 'her faith,' and every soul is God's soul, because it shares the same soul with God! .. And no person or living thing in the universe stands outside the community of God.”

Persons Soul Universe Community Church Share Tomorrow Standing Out Living Things

Book:Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge

Source: Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge

“Questions appear real for as long as you consider yourself to be a person. When you realize you are the impersonal presence, all questions vanish.”

Persons Long Real Realizing

Author:Mooji

“A person who speaks good English in New York sounds like a foreigner.”

Persons Speak Sound New York Foreigners

Author:Jackie Mason

“Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind.”

“The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth.”

Persons Doe Important Wealth Source Industry Labor Important Things Workers

Book:Goodbye Profit System: 8 Aesthetic Realism Lectures May 22 to July 10, 1970, Reported by Students of Aesthetic Realism

Source: Goodbye Profit System: 8 Aesthetic Realism Lectures May 22 to July 10, 1970, Reported by Students of Aesthetic Realism

“A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.”

Persons Design Appearance Distrust Prudent Vigilance

Book:A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction

Source: A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction

“Responsibility is the most important ability that a person can possess.”

Persons Important Ability Responsibility

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Deportation is a decision taken by the home secretary under statute, The new grounds will include fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a person's beliefs, or justifying or validating such violence.”

Persons Home Belief Decision Taken Violence Hatred Secretary Advocating Statutes Fostering Deportation

Author:Tony Blair

“I never talk when I'm drawing a person, especially if I'm making line drawings. I prefer there to be no noise at all so I can concentrate more.”

Ifs Persons I Can Lines Silence Drawing Noise

Book:David Hockney

Source: David Hockney

“You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.”

People Ifs Knows Persons Two Book Divine Balance Two Things Teamwork Associates

Author:Earl Nightingale

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