P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
While they were content to peck cautiously at the ball, he never spared himself in his efforts to do it a violent injury.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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I wasn't allowed to have sugar as a kid. We didn't have candy or soda or anything, so Easter and Halloween were my favorite times 'cause I could eat as much candy as I wanted.
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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
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Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.
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One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
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It's important to remember all the millions of people that are starving.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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Whatever adults don't understand, because they didn't grow up with it, is the thing they're going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll.
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My friendships are very important to me.
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Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.
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When America is chasing you, the whole world is chasing you.
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What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization but an international conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.
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'Well now,' he said, 'was I as good as you were when you were me?'
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Turbulence is the beginning of a fruitful process of transformation.
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To waft a feather or to drown a fly.
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If I loved you, well that's my fault
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You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.
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Taken on the whole, I would believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit... not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in what we believe is evil.
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I've got a really good family; I've got great friends around me.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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The only person that I want to love me is my wife.
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The test of any man lies in action.
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While they were content to peck cautiously at the ball, he never spared himself in his efforts to do it a violent injury.
