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Horace:It's a good thing to be foolishly gay


It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.
by Horace


Jean-Paul Sartre:The existentialist says at once


The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.
by Jean-Paul Sartre


Publilius Syrus:Nothing can be done at once


Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
by Publilius Syrus


Jean Giraudoux:The secret of success is


The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
by Jean Giraudoux


Georg C. Lichtenberg:Everyone is a genius at


Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
by Georg C. Lichtenberg


Horace Mann:Education alone can conduct us to


Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
by Horace Mann


Ogden Nash:Progress might have been all right


Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long.
by Ogden Nash


Jean-Paul Sartre:Man is condemned to be free;


Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
by Jean-Paul Sartre


Mark Twain:Training is everything. The peach was


Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
by Mark Twain


Oscar Wilde:When a man has once loved a woman he


When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
by Oscar Wilde


Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.:Take a music bath once


Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.


Ovid:Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you


Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.
by Ovid


Nagarjuna:Method is more important than


Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
by Nagarjuna


William Cowper:Acquaint thyself with God, if


Acquaint thyself with God, if thou would'st taste His works. Admitted once to his embrace, Thou shalt perceive that thou was blind before: Thine eye shall be instructed; and thine heart Made pure shall relish with divine delight Till then unfelt, what hands divine have wrought.
by William Cowper


Quentin Crisp:Love is the extra effort we make


Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
by Quentin Crisp


William Shakespeare:'Tis a common proof, that


'Tis a common proof, that lowliness is Edward Young ambition's ladder, where to the climber upwards turns his face; but when he once attains the utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks into the clouds scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend.
by William Shakespeare


Mae West:My advice to those who think they have


My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you’re boned, what’s left to create the illusion? Let ‘em wonder. I never believed in givin’ them too much of me.
by Mae West


Rainer Maria Rilke:A good marriage is that in


A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky.
by Rainer Maria Rilke


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