Edward Joseph Young Quotes
Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.Edward Joseph Young
Quotes to Explore
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I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.
Adam McKay -
For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.
Mahmoud Darwish -
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
Margaret Mead -
I'm always a little apprehensive about 'decoding' fictional stories.
Adrian Tomine -
I am mindful of achieving the right balance in my life and am working hard on that also. To enjoy the little moments of goodness when they appear, to be present with the people I love and to spread light wherever possible.
Kylie Minogue -
If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.
Alison Lurie
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They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.
Betty Smith -
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing.
William Booth -
He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.
Jane Austen -
Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you where to run, you missed the starting gun.
David Gilmour Pink Floyd -
It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.
George Eliot -
I work and work and if I have a surplus I book a holiday.
Paul Young Mike and the Mechanics
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Discipline means protection from one's own wanton interest.
Bill Vaughan -
The time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.
William Shakespeare -
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. Henry -
Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.
Edward Joseph Young