Short quotations about, being - Page 2

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There are people who, instead of li…

3 May , 2016  

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves. Great short quote and quotation by: Albert Guinon , (1863 – 1923)

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There are times when you have to ch…

3 Jul , 2015  

There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste. Great short quote and quotation by: Bertolt Brecht , German Communist & dramatist (1898 – 1956)

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There is a noble manner of being po…

3 Jul , 2015  

There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich. Great short quote and quotation by: Seneca , Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC – 65 AD)

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There is a very fine line between l…

3 Jul , 2015  

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. Great short quote and quotation by: Maya Angelou , US author & poet (1928 – )

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There is a wide difference between …

3 Jul , 2015  

There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable. Great short quote and quotation by: Voltaire , French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)

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There is no being of any race who, …

3 Jul , 2015  

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue. Great short quote and quotation by: Cicero , Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC – 43 BC)

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Pierre Bayle, Dictionairre Historique et Critique

There is not less wit nor less inve…

3 Jul , 2015  

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Great short quote and quotation by: Pierre Bayle, Dictionairre Historique et Critique , French critic & philosopher (1647 – 1706)

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There is only one thing in the worl…

26 Dec , 2014  

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. Great short quote and quotation by: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 , Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – 1900)

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Woodrow Wilson, Speech in Philadelphia, May 10, 1915

There is such a thing as a man bein…

17 Nov , 2014  

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight; there is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right. Great short quote and quotation by: Woodrow Wilson, Speech in Philadelphia, May 10, 1915 , 28th president […]

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They say, best men are moulded out …

25 Jan , 2014  

They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad. Great short quote and quotation by: William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, Act 5 scene 1 , Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

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This is the true joy in life — bei…

14 Jun , 2013  

This is the true joy in life — being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one… Great short quote and quotation by: George Bernard Shaw , Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

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George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory

This is the true joy in life, the b…

14 Jun , 2013  

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will […]

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