Short quotations about, course - Page 2

Oliver Wendell Holmes

When I think of talking, it is of c…

15 Feb , 2011  

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman? Great short quote and quotation by: Oliver Wendell Holmes , US author & physician (1809 – 1894)

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Bertrand Russell

When one admits that nothing is cer…

15 Feb , 2011  

When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and […]

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H. Allen Smith

When there are two conflicting vers…

15 Feb , 2011  

When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst. Great short quote and quotation by: H. Allen Smith ,

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Rudyard Kipling

Words are, of course, the most powe…

14 Feb , 2011  

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Great short quote and quotation by: Rudyard Kipling , British (Indian-born) author (1865 – 1936)

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J. R. R Tolkien, Elrond from The Lord of the Rings

Yet such is oft the course of deeds…

27 Apr , 2010  

Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them becuase they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere. Great short quote and quotation by: J. R. R Tolkien, Elrond from The Lord of the Rings ,

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Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-House 5

You know what I say to people when …

27 Apr , 2010  

You know what I say to people when I hear they?re writing an anti-war book?? I say, “why don?t you write an anti-glacier book instead?” What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. Great short quote and quotation […]

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William Somerset Maugham, The Bread-Winner

You know, of course, that the Tasma…

27 Apr , 2010  

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. Great short quote and quotation by: William Somerset Maugham, The Bread-Winner ,

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