Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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Frogs are smart--they eat what bugs them.
A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. -- William Shedd
Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.
-- John Webster c.1580-c.1625)...
Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.
-- Minna Antrim (fl. 1900) from Naked Truths and Veiled Illusio...
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold (1897-1987)...
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France (1844-1924)
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colto...
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself.
They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings....
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. -- Jean Anouilh
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first.
After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy...

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