When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs. Great short quote and quotation by: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 , Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 – […]
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When good men die their goodness does not perish,But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,All that was theirs dies and is buried with them. Great short quote and quotation by: Euripides, Temenidae , Greek tragic dramatist (484 BC – 406 BC)
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was […]
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When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same. Great short quote and quotation by: Alexander Hamilton , US (Scottish-born) […]
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Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content. Great short quote and quotation by: Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince , Italian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 – 1527)
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When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality. Great short […]
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When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. Great short quote and quotation by: Edward Bulwer-Lytton , English dramatist, novelist, & politician (1803 – 1873)