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Quotes by English Authors
"The only way I could relax was when I was with my children."
"Mark it, nuncle.Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest,Lend less than thou owest,Ride more than thou goest,Learn more than thou trowest,Set less than thou throwest,Leave thy drink and thy whoreAnd keep in-a-door,And thou shalt have moreThan two tens to a score."
"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain."
"Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death."
"Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales."
"I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control."
"She gave me another of those long keen looks, and I could see that she was again asking herself if her favourite nephew wasn't steeped to the tonsils in the juice of the grape."
"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting."
"It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. Whenyou pay too much, you lose a little money - that's all. When you paytoo little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing youbought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. Thecommon law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting alot - it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is wellto add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you willhave enough to pay for something better."
"And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray."
"It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty."
"Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened."
"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."
"Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead."
"For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment."
"Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other."
"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic."
"Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear."
"Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation."
"Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment."
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
"On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round."
"T is generally recognized that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multitasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics. It is not politically correct to say such things....But it cannot be denied that there are differences between men and women. Of course, these are differences between the averages only. There are wide variations about the mean."
"Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat."
"One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness."
"This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning."
"Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left."
"I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair."
"Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai."
"If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine."
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