Quotations Page 'A'
Saturday, 07 September 2024
Good wine needs neither bush nor preface.To make it welcome.
- Sir Ealter Scott, Peveril of the peak -
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Never Trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
- Aesop, The Fox and the Goat -
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When a man seeks your advice, he generally wants your praise.
- Chesterfield -
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And with my advice, faith you'd take me.
- Samual Lover, Window Machree -
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Ask a woman advice, andWhatever she advice.Do the very reverse and you'reSure to be wise.
- Thomas Moore, Make a Good Politician -
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's ability.
- Goethe -
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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
- W.R.Alger -
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Advice is seldom welcome, those who need it most like it least.
- Johnson -
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We have been, let us say, to hear the latest Pole.Transmit the preludes, through his hair and fingertips.
- Thomas Stearns Eliot, Portrait of a Lady -
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Affection is a greater enemy to the face than the smallpox.
- St.Evermond -
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Ah! If you only knew the peace, there is in an accepted sorrow.
- Madame Guion -
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The lord gets his best Soldiers out of the high-land of affliction.
- Spurgeon -
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I have lived long enough; my way of life,Is fall's into sear, the yellow leaf.
- Shakespeare, Macbeath -
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
- Swift -
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Grabbed age and youth cannot live together.
- Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim -
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
- Bacon -
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Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience to a nation to mould its laws.
- Sir Robert Peel -
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves the trouble of linking them a great deal.
- Jone Austen -
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He that complies against his will,Is of his own opinion still .
- Samuel Butller -
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