Famous Quotes
14805 Quotations with Thing.
- 1761. H. L. Mencken: In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite dev ...
- 1762. Cecil Baxter: You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
- 1763. George Bernard Shaw: Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
- 1764. G. K. Chesterton: The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
- 1765. Bob Hope: I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
- 1766. Aleister Crowley: To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first d ...
- 1767. Bruce Grocott: I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich ...
- 1768. Nicholas Chamfort: In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things th ...
- 1769. Cyril Connolly: All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on ...
- 1770. Michel de Montaigne: No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberat ...
- 1771. Samuel Johnson: Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more diff ...
- 1772. J. R. R. Tolkien: 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so ...
- 1773. Sophocles: Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
- 1774. Caecilius Statius: Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
- 1775. Publilius Syrus: A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things.
- 1776. Seneca: It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
- 1777. Seneca: Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
- 1778. Cicero: It is a great thing to know our vices.
- 1779. Jean de La Fontaine: In everything one must consider the end.
- 1780. Seneca: What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his ...