George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham Quotes

True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none.

George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

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• People just want to have access to all of the world's music.

  

  Daniel Ek
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• My goal is to get outs as soon as I can. Strikeouts aren't that big a deal to me.

  

  Eli Manning
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• Cricket is not like a government job where retirement age is fixed at A cricketer can retire at 30 or 60; it's up to the player.

  

  Virender Sehwag
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• All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

  

  Confucius
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• Leave us to our free election.

  

  William Shakespeare
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• That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

  

  Wallace Stegner
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• We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's.” To which Tyndale passionately responded: “I defy the Pope, and all his laws; and if God spares my life, ere many years, I will cause the boy that driveth the plow to know more of the Scriptures than thou dost!

  

  William Tyndale
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• Oh that's what he left? Let his mama pick it up. Might back up on it, VROOM VROOM wit the pick-up truck.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Up
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• You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell, and with these in mind I say, climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.

  

  Edward Whymper
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• The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Quality
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  • Modern

• True wit is everlasting, like the sun; describing all men, but described by none.

  

  George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham
  • Wit
  • Described
  • Everlasting