Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844-1900),"Beyond Good and Evil," 1886...
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures.
We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide...
Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactely the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.
-- Peter Mere Latham...
Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
-- Jose Ortega Gasse...
What I dream is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubeling and depressing subject matter.
..a shooting, calming influence on the mind, something like a good armchair which provide...
Life is a difficult in the country, and it requires a good deal of forethought to steer the ship, when you are twelve miles from a lemon.
-- Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English clergyman and essayi...
Madam, I have been looking for person that dislikes gravy all my life
let us swear eternal friendship. -- Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English clergyman and essayi...
Soup and fish explain half the emotions in life.
-- Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English clergyman and essayi...
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea!
How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea!...
Church ain't over till the fat lady sings.
-- Fabia Rue Smith and Charles Rayford, Southern Words and sayings [1976]...

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