William Gilmore Simms Quotes
The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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I don't think men get enough flowers. A deeper pink or red peonies are my favorite. But I'll take anything, really.
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God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.
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If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.
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I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.
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Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
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So much of life is what you roll and where you land.
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No man can prove upon awakening that he is the man who he thinks went to bed the night before, or that anything that he recollects is anything other than a convincing dream.
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The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.
