P. G. Wodehouse Quotes
He then gave a hideous laugh and added that, if anybody was interested in his plans, he was going to join the Foreign Legion, that cohort of the damned in which broken men may toil and die and dying, forget. ‘Beau Widgeon?’ said the Egg, impressed. ‘What ho!’P. G. Wodehouse
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All men would be tyrants if they could.
Daniel Defoe -
Great men marry great women.
Ilyasah Shabazz -
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
Ted Strickland -
Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
Indra Devi -
Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.
T. E. Lawrence
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
Dag Hammarskjold -
Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
Patricia Polacco -
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill -
But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.
Patricia Hewitt -
Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
Edmund Hillary -
I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.
Omari Hardwick
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The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.
Xun Kuang -
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Hardcore fans have a vision in their head, and if they look at your cosplay of it, you may not fit their vision.
Yaya Han -
Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
Nathan Myhrvold -
Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
Saint Francis de Sales -
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke
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I'm always open to trying out new things.
Natalie Dormer -
As an actor, I always think that if someone does pick up a phone during a performance, something dire must be happening in their lives that is more important than theatre - some kind of tragedy they were attending to, or something. It's very uncomfortable if you don't know why they would pick up a phone and talk in the middle of a show.
Annaleigh Ashford -
Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.
Bill Vaughan -
He then gave a hideous laugh and added that, if anybody was interested in his plans, he was going to join the Foreign Legion, that cohort of the damned in which broken men may toil and die and dying, forget. ‘Beau Widgeon?’ said the Egg, impressed. ‘What ho!’
P. G. Wodehouse