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In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.


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In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
WINSTON CHURCHILL In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In those days he was wiser than he is now--he used frequently to take my advice.
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HE ZHENLIANG This will be conducive to the development of Sino-US relations and China's relationships with the re...
HE YAFEI The best way to resolve Sino-US trade imbalance is to expand bilateral trade cooperation. Restrictin...
HE YAFEI They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union and they don't know how to act.
HE YAFEI We are willing to import more U.S. goods.
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HE WEIFANG This is a critical moment. There is a lot of opposition to continuing the reforms as they are today.
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HE WEIFANG The situation exists in almost every well-known Chinese university.
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HE FAN The new managed floating currency regime is just an interim system. There is a chance of a further w...
HE FAN Eventually, we found that the situation there was more serious than what we imagined.
HE CHANGCHUI Part of our mission is to find out what kind of assistance is required.
HE CHANGCHUI It seems like he used to give advice, but now he doesn't give advice as he does try to put you down.
BUCKY COVINGTON There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always lis...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Your Lord knows best what is in your minds; if you are good, then He is surely Forgiving to those wh...
QURAN This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lor...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is...
ALEXANDER POPE He wrote very well in those days, as it happens, much better than he does now. He had absolute convi...
RICARDO PIGLIA When he gives me advice -- well it seems like he used to give advice, but now he doesn't so much giv...
BUCKY COVINGTON A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, ...
ALEXANDER POPE A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today ...
ALEXANDER POPE He that can compose himself, is wiser than he that composes books
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other wor...
ALEXANDER POPE He was a little of both. I didn't know much in those days, because it was only my third film. I was ...
ROBERT WISE He has been wanting to talk to the police, ... He was pretty frantic to talk to the police. I advise...
CHRIS COLLINS He was a vampire now. He was supposed to have eternity. But what he had was days.
CASSANDRA CLARE Ray Charles is a giant. He was one of my mentors. He would write arrangements in Braille, and transl...
QUINCY JONES Arthur felt happy. He was terribly pleased that the day was for once working out so much according t...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I don't think much of a man who is not wiser than he was yesterday.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Looking back now, he was not behaving like he used to.
GARRETT GINGLEN But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree:...
BIBLE Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in J...
BIBLE The president's getting a lot of advice about things he might do in the days ahead, and he will do w...
MIKE MCCURRY I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life...
P. D. JAMES Does the hummingbird think he himself invented his crimson throat?
He is wiser than that, I thi...
MARY OLIVER A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he i...
JONATHAN SWIFT A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was wiser than...
STEPHEN CRANE No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was ...
H. L. MENCKEN In Pat's younger years, he was sporadic and he often would make the wrong moves at the wrong times t...
DERYLL ROHDA My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city whe...
JAKE JOHNSON My advice to anyone is, have confidence, sit back, wait for the process to happen. And when it does,...
JAMES MCCLOUGHAN Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
LESLIE FIEDLER He wasn't able to talk to anyone he was in solitary, out one hour every two days, he was just all by...
NATALIE HENDERSON And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly...
BIBLE What he took from me was nothing, because he can't take my spirit, he can't take my soul. My soul is...
CHARLES NEVILLE He told me he was stiff, he said go to Jamal (Crawford). I've said the same thing for four days now.
LARRY BROWN He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than...
TRYON EDWARDS He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow t...
TRYON EDWARDS I still remember how my father used to wake me up at 4 A.M. and make me study. He also used to take ...
MOUNI ROY He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
KARL VON KNEBEL He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
KARL VON KNEBEL I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he us...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO He is in a gunfight right now. I'm gonna have to take a message.
ERIKA ELENIAK He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morr...
TRYON EDWARDS My hopes are laid up within my own bosom, for he is not alone with whom the Lord is; when he falls, ...
THOMAS BECKET Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggl...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the...
DUKE OF WELLINGTON Love is wiser than Philosophy, though he is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty... Hi...
OSCAR WILDE He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.
MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY [But] he could never take an audience seriously. If he took their advice, what they liked, that woul...
BARRY MILES I'll cherish the days that I spent with him and traveled with him. He was my mentor, he was my idol,...
TOM LASORDA What used to take up to five days to detect now usually takes less than an hour.
LANE BESS Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge ...
SOCRATES I remember li'l ol' Hank Jr. - he was just a baby back in them days, you know - but he used ...
MEL TILLIS To belong somewhere. That was something much more important than belonging to someone. Now, he used...
ROBERT NEIL FLEISCHER My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands.
JASON STATHAM I have none other than You, O Lord. In the Guru's Sanctuary, the Lord is found, O my merchant friend...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quie...
ZEPHANIAH Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea.
ERIC BRISTOW Even when he was beginning to open this thing, he would ask for advice and he was open to ideas. He ...
BRENT MARTIN My dad used to ignore me when I was a kid. He couldn't stand my voice, so he just used to ignore...
ALISON GOLDFRAPP He just had no feel. Everything he tried to do, he was missing his target. It was one of those days ...
TONY LA RUSSA I used to gamble when I was young. I'm wiser now.
SHARRON ANGLE My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent...
BEVERLY SILLS He is just a master painter. He used to do really detailed works when he was younger. When he got ol...
TERRI JORDAN Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymor...
MARC FORSTER He is so much stronger than he was as a true freshman. He is extremely strong and explosive and powe...
CHAN GAILEY He told me he was used to getting what he wanted.
CELIA CONRAD He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object belove...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON ....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'texture...
JEANNETTE WALLS He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN It is painful for me because I would love to sit down and talk to my dad about the way he used to be...
LAILA ALI I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man: neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhi...
SOCRATES He has been fantastic. It is great, he every now and then takes you aside and gives you little bits ...
ALASTAIR COOK Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover,...
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LORD BYRON Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
LORD BYRON Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the ...
LORD BYRON History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
LORD ACTON There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? ...
LORD BYRON For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave not...
LORD BYRON But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which...
LORD BYRON Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRON Adversity is the first path to truth.
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