Charles R. Forbes (Charles Robert Forbes) Quotes
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Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward.
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[Mitt] Romney looks the part and is well known around the world and has a lot of experience.
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I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.
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As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.
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I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.
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On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.
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Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
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You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.
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I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!
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Well, I wouldn't want to say that I started it (rock 'n' roll), but I don't remember anyone else before me playing that kind of stuff.
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Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.
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Flattery'll get you anywhere.
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Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.
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As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.
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Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.
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There's a certain balance between finding an opportunity to do what you really enjoy and getting caught up in the flattery of people wanting you to do things.
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Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
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Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.
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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. Share the botanical bliss of gardeners through the ages, who have cultivated philosophies to apply to their own - and our own - lives: Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
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It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
