"A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact."

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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

Nigella Lawson, British Journalist

Fact, Respect

"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Fact, Parents, Wishing, Wrong

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Fact, Wishes

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Fact, Facts

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Fact, Opinion

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Fact, Facts, Ignorance, Theory

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Fact, Vice

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

George Eliot, British Author

Fact, Giving, Man, Nothing

"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Fact, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Life

"The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat."

Ray Milland, American Actor

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"Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time."

Time, Worry

"The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them."

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"To be an ideal guest, stay at home."

Home, Guest

"None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married."

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"Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing."

Favorite, Fishing

"If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression."

Faith, Experience, Expression, Giving

"A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around."

War,

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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"

"The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat."

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"Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy."

"The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in."

"Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time."

"Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time."

"The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them."

"To be an ideal guest, stay at home."

"None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married."

"Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing."

"If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression."

"A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around."