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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He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on.
Ernest Hemingway -
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Francis Bacon -
Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.
Lao Tzu -
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Mark Twain -
After all this running away from finished things, I ran into myself as a finished thing. And I’m still running away from finished things.
Antonio Porchia -
No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.
John Milton