John Milton Quotes
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God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.
Florence Nightingale -
Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
Ze Frank -
...next time you rake up those leaves realize you're about to jump into a pile of tree shit. 19.
Ze Frank -
Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
F. Lee Bailey -
In some ways I was curt because there's an unbelievable amount to accomplish in a day.
Dawn Steel -
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain -
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain -
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain -
Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
Mark Twain -
We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain -
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
Mark Twain
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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
Mark Twain -
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain -
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain -
All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
Mark Twain -
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Mark Twain -
There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
Mark Twain
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A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions.
Aristotle -
We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.
Nelson Goodman -
If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if a common workman were sure to dream every night for twelve hours that he was a king, I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who should dream every night for twelve hours on end that he was a common workman.
Blaise Pascal -
The last thing we ever learn about ourselves is our effect.
William Boyd -
No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.
John Milton