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It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
obscurity language obscenity
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. Edward Gibbon
obscurity problem bigs
The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity. Cory Doctorow
obscurity
Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time. Carrie Fisher
obscurity poverty life-is
Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. Jim Carrey
obscurity records needs
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity. Elvis Costello
obscurity incapacity proportion
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity. Quintilian
obscurity unusual reefs
Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef. Julius Caesar
obscurity wells
He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. Ovid
obscurity human-life brevity
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life Protagoras
display families family home large numbers people photos tend
Many people keep photos in their homes, in their office, or in their wallet, and happy families tend to display large numbers of photos at home. In 'Happier at Home,' I write about my 'shrine to my family' made of photographs. Gretchen Rubin
display
Display is as false as it is costly. Benjamin Franklin
display internet matter record technology
With technology you can now be your own record company, director, producer, etc. If you have talent, you can display it on the Internet and the world will tell you their thoughts in the matter of seconds! Romeo Miller
display ragamuffin-gospel
Do the truth quietly without display. Brennan Manning
displaying power technology versus
When you're displaying content, any technology will use more power to display, versus not displaying content. Kevin Lynch
display happened pay somebody
Somebody could pay you to let them display the fish. That's what happened with Ethel.
display
Fighters display two things. They display confidence, or they display a look that says, 'I'm not sure.' Sugar Ray Leonard
displaying elegance following lady power statement tradition
She was following in the tradition of the first lady displaying this kind of elegance as a statement about the power of the presidency.
displaying mind novelist trick visible
The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam! Vikram Seth