Sammy Davis, Jr. Quotes

Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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• Stupidity

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• A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.

  

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• The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

  

  Xavier Becerra
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• Patience is the companion of wisdom.

  

  Saint Augustine
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• Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
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• The very important thing you should have is patience.

  

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• I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

  

  Zoe Kazan
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• For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Live
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• According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Age
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• I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Alcohol

• I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • America
  • Clever
  • Alcohol

• I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Exercise
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• Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Life
  • Morning
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• I try to do things that make me feel good. I go to yoga classes, drink a lot of water, eat healthily and keep things like alcohol and coffee to weekends. I don't overdo anything.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Good
  • Water
  • Yoga

• I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Think
  • Understanding
  • Patience

• When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Good
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• There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

  

  Larry Hagman
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  • Patience
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• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Patience
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• I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Humanity
  • Patience
  • Gorilla

• When I first visited the Hospice in Milton, I had a pre-conceived idea as to what to expect. Far from being a clinical, depressing place for sick children, it was a home. Most importantly, it was a family home, a happy place of stability, support and care. It was a place of fun.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Family
  • Home

• He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them.

  

  Bryant H. McGill

• The moments that I feel a huge sense of accomplishment are actually the smaller moments, not really the bigger ones, the televised ones.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Moments
  • Accomplishment

• Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Patience
  • Alcohol
  • Stupidity