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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• Great men marry great women.

  

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• If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

  

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• 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
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• When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.

  

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• Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

  

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• 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
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• Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.

  

  Patricia Polacco
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• Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
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• But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.

  

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• 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.

  

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• I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.

  

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• Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • May
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• The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

  

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• Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

  

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• Hardcore fans have a vision in their head, and if they look at your cosplay of it, you may not fit their vision.

  

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• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  

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• Whatsoever is done out of pure love, be it ever so little or contemptible in the sight of men, is wholly fruitful; for God measures more with how much love one worketh, than the amount he doeth.

  

  Ellen G. White
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• Go, therefore, to meet the foe with two objects before you, either victory or death. For men animated by such a spirit must always overcome their adversaries, since they go into battle ready to throw away their lives.

  

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• When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

  

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• I'm a firm believer in taking risks in life, because you'll never get anywhere unless you do, and the more risk involved the greater the outcome - or the worse, but you never know so you've got to go for it.

  

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  • Life
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• 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
  • Men
  • May
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