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John Keats:Scenery is fine - but human nature is


Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
by John Keats


Unknown:Dogs believe they are human. Cats


Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.
by Unknown


Sivananda:Every human being is the author of his


Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
by Sivananda


Heinrich Heine:I have never seen an ass who


I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.
by Heinrich Heine


Salman Rushdie:Literature is where I go to


Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.
by Salman Rushdie


Zimmerman:In Fame's temple there is always a


In Fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels or successful butchers of the human race.
by Zimmerman


Thomas Carlyle:Laughter is one of the very


Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
by Thomas Carlyle


Eric Ambler:International business may conduct


International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.
by Eric Ambler


Ralph Waldo Emerson:It is the privilege of any


It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.
by Ralph Waldo Emerson


Aristotle:All human actions have one or more of


All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
by Aristotle


Joseph Hall:Moderation is the center wherein all


Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
by Joseph Hall


Stephen B. Leacock:Advertising may be described


Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
by Stephen B. Leacock


Niccolo Machiavelli:Ambition is so powerful a


Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
by Niccolo Machiavelli


Niccolò Machiavelli:Ambition is so powerful a


Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
by Niccolò Machiavelli


H.L. Mencken:Neither sex, without some


Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
by H.L. Mencken


H.L. Mencken:The basic fact about human


The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
by H.L. Mencken


Vicki Baum:Marriage always demands the greatest


Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.
by Vicki Baum


Albert Pike:A Human Thought is an actual


A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
by Albert Pike


Alexander Pope:Love, free as air at sight of


Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
by Alexander Pope


Pythagoras:The momentous thing in human life is


The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
by Pythagoras


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