My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me
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My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.
THOMAS MOORE My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this ...
DYLAN LAUREN It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connect...
JAMES A. BALDWIN It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connect...
JAMES BALDWIN Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did...
NEIL GAIMAN My parents were strict and taught me the proper fundamentals that I would use in my life. They taugh...
BILLY CASPER My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practic...
PETE ROSE My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wis...
SHANNON L. ALDER My name always gets paired with his. Everyone always tells me my shot looks like his. That's because...
BRENDAN WINTERS no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY No more pencils/no more books/no more teachers’ dirty looks/when the teacher rings the bell/drop y...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything abo...
LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG What he modeled was decency. He'd always ask me questions. 'How are you doing? What were my goals? D...
AL ROBERTS A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
MALORIE BLACKMAN You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you ...
JAMES BALDWIN You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you ...
JAMES BALDWIN What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of...
BRYAN FULLER I am in agreement with everything my father taught me and nothing my mother taught me.
FRIDA KAHLO All of this made me feel better about myself, and I was grateful to the books for teaching me-withou...
BROCK CLARKE There were a lot of really good teachers at Valley who taught me well and were very inspirational. T...
SID GUTIERREZ I do like being in front of the camera more and more. Having experience behind it has taught me abou...
BELLA HADID My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books...
ALEJANDRO AMENABAR I played with my brothers all the time. It was good competition with (Ken), who is only two years ol...
IKE NWAELELE The prima ballerinas who taught me were far more scary than Gordon Ramsay. They'd scream at me a...
JENNIFER ELLISON A womans mistakes are different from a girls
JANET FITCH Oh that it were my chief delight To do the things I ought! Then let me try with all my might To mind...
JANE TAYLOR My mother taught me that reading is a kind of work, and that every paragraph merits exertion, and in...
HOPE JAHREN In my high-minded and naive way, I believed the only books worth reading were the classics.
MARIA SEMPLE My mum taught me a lot about fashion in terms of knowing what looks good on you and developing my ow...
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER My father had a handgun on the bedside table, and we were all taught to handle firearms.
JOHN HICKENLOOPER All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
BILLY GRAHAM As an undergraduate student in psychology, I was taught that multiple personalities were a very rare...
DEBORAH BRAY HADDOCK Every one of my books had killed me a little more.
NORMAN MAILER I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing...
NATASHA LYONNE Chicago taught me when to talk, taught me when to shut up, taught me when to stay, taught me when to...
BJ THE CHICAGO KID Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE Of all the lessons my parents taught me,
GIVING was the best
CHARMAINE J. FORDE My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taug...
MARK HOPPUS Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were a...
NENIA CAMPBELL I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my s...
BARRY MCGEE Coach Jones taught me a lot along the way. And of all the things he taught me, the one thing that st...
COREY PARISH I think people are seeing Tyrus Thomas and think all of my players are just like that. He's the only...
JOHN BRADY My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.
JAZZ FEYLYNN A COWARD MAN DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO TREASURE A WOMANS HEART
JANE LORENTE I was taught at an early age to be humble, ... All my family taught me that. You can't forget where ...
BRYSON SUMLIN Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts...
SALMAN RUSHDIE It's only the meat and potatoes. When you are looking through the textbook, you're not seeing all th...
KEVIN BUSHMAN My bookshelves have no order. I prune them regularly and sell the books to Myopic Books, a Chicago b...
JESSE BALL When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books.
JOHN LOGAN John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play t...
JUDY JOHNSON My mom taught me how to love, my dad taught me how to be a man.You put them together, and ill be you...
LUIS ARIEL ROMERO JR. A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
WALT WHITMAN A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
WALT WHITMAN O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious ...
BAHA'U'LLAH Theyve got the experience and know what it takes to build a temporary city.
TOM CLARK I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, H...
RUDYARD KIPLING I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And...
DARIO ARGENTO I saw my dad playing and got interested in the game. My father taught me a few moves and my brother ...
MAGESH CHANDRAN PANCHANATHAN Mel taught me a new grip on my sinker in spring training, and I've used it all year, ... It has real...
AARON SMALL Mel taught me a new grip on my sinker in spring training, and I've used it all year. It has really h...
AARON SMALL My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things ...
BETTY CUTHBERT More and more I lived in books, they were my comfort, refuge, addiction, compensation for the humili...
LORNA SAGE Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas...
THOMAS EDISON Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small-clothes and looks as if he smelt it.
CHRISTOPHER SMART A girl should think about making herself look attractive so she can get a good husband later on. Loo...
ROALD DAHL To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It me...
KAREN ROBARDS My mother taught me to believe in silver, to believe in things, but I think it's more important to b...
ELIZABETH SCOTT The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't kno...
DONNA TARTT All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers an...
OLIVER NORTH Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.
DEAN KOONTZ That game taught me my uppercut,
VLADIMIR GUERRERO He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.
HILARY MANTEL Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad wor...
SAM BARRY Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about...
EDGAR ALLAN POE [Mann has not been the familys only benefactor. Members of Talladega Creek Baptist Church and Pastor...
BARBARA UPTON I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading a...
MAL PEET My parents were very giving. They taught us to always help other people. Maybe that's what got me in...
JOAN MANDZUK You taught me to think, and you put ideas in my head. People read to forget. Books don't change the ...
FAIQA MANSAB Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.
ELISABETH ELLIOT Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more pur...
LANCE ARMSTRONG My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying...
BRAM COHEN My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things ...
BETTY CUTHBERT Breathing in the scent of his hair, I realized I'd needed him my whole life, before we even met. Fir...
JODI MEADOWS LIFE IS AN ENTHUSIASM. MY EXPERIENCE OF LIFE, MY VISION ALL ARE MENTION IN MY BOOKS. WRITING LANGUAG...
SARAVAN MAHESWER I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. As a child I was taug...
JANE AUSTEN I was a good dog. I had fulfilled my purpose. Lessons I had learned from being feral had taught me h...
W. BRUCE CAMERON You chose books. I chose looks.
ROALD DAHL If you would like to know more about me look to the pages of my books and you'll find me in between ...
JIM CHERRY I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of an...
C.S. LEWIS I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction....
JOHN TWELVE HAWKS It's a symbiotic process, writing. What I am makes the books—not part of me, all of me—and then ...
JEANETTE WINTERSON I didn't realise the numbers were quite that good. To beat Thomas is a great win for me and I'm deli...
DAVID HOWELL I loved my soap days. I really loved them. A Martinez and Marcy Walker taught me how to act, basical...
ALLY WALKER God strengthened me and taught me who I am in Him. He taught me that not only do I need to have fait...
EL DEBARGE My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to rea...
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THOMAS MORE Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, / Where cold and unhonoured his relics are laid...
THOMAS MORE Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, / Which I gaze on so fondly to-day.
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THOMAS MORE . . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell...
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THOMAS MORE An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagina...
THOMAS MORE An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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THOMAS MORE 'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone
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THOMAS MORE I never nursed a dear gazelle, / To glad me with its soft black eye, / But when it came to know me w...
THOMAS MORE Oh! blame not the bard.
THOMAS MORE Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, / But the trail of the serpent is over them all!
THOMAS MORE Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power
THOMAS MORE Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, / But turn to ashes on the lips!
THOMAS MORE A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
THOMAS MORE The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion an...
THOMAS MORE No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.
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THOMAS MORE "Tell me, what's Love?" said Youth, one day, To drooping Age, who crost his way, "It is a sunny hour...
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THOMAS MORE This case is about free inquiry in education, not about a religious agenda,
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THOMAS MORE Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
THOMAS MORE Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
THOMAS MORE Is not this house [the Tower of London] as nigh heaven as my own?
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THOMAS MORE A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roué to retire upon.
THOMAS MORE The harp that once through Tara's halls / The soul of music shed, / Now hangs as mute as Tara's wall...
THOMAS MORE Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot
THOMAS MORE Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
THOMAS MORE There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dreams
THOMAS MORE No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream
THOMAS MORE Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to m...
THOMAS MORE The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.
THOMAS MORE If it be a point of humanity for man to bring health and comfort to man, and especially to mitigate ...
THOMAS MORE Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
THOMAS MORE Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.
SIR THOMAS MORE And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
SIR THOMAS MORE Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste
portion of the earth as is necessary for...
SIR THOMAS MORE For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble;
and whoso doth us a good tourne we...
SIR THOMAS MORE They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.
SIR THOMAS MORE For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the ...
SIR THOMAS MORE A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
SIR THOMAS MORE They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so m...
SIR THOMAS MORE This hath not offended the king.
SIR THOMAS MORE Why dost thou gaze upon the sky?
O that I were yon spangled sphere!
Then every star should b...
SIR THOMAS MORE Nay, tempt me not to love again:
There was a time when love was sweet;
Dear Nea! had I known...
SIR THOMAS MORE Then on the grounde
Togyder rounde
With manye a sadde stroke,
They roll and rumble,
...
SIR THOMAS MORE And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
SIR THOMAS MORE Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
SIR THOMAS MORE Whosoever loveth me loveth my hound.
SIR THOMAS MORE Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
HANNAH MORE Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trem...
HANNAH MORE The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of ...
HANNAH MORE The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than...
HANNAH MORE My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works ...
HANNAH MORE There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that...
HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HANNAH MORE O jealousy,
Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom
Preys on my vitals, turns the health...
HANNAH MORE Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its
necessities.
HANNAH MORE Fell luxury! more perilous to youth
Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.
HANNAH MORE No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue;
Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest
Save he who...
HANNAH MORE Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more cert...
HANNAH MORE How goodness heightens beauty!
HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HANNAH MORE If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow...
HANNAH MORE Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o...
HANNAH MORE Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
HANNAH MORE Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
HANNAH MORE In men this blunder still you find,
All think their little set mankind.
HANNAH MORE Sow an action, reap a habit.
HANNAH MORE Small habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes.
HANNAH MORE Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatre...
HANNAH MORE I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being r...
KENNETH MORE Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear,
She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear.
HENRY MORE A crown! what is it?
It is to bear the miseries of a people!
To bear the miseries of a people...
HANNAH MORE Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o...
HANNAH MORE It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate wh...
HANNAH MORE One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help t...
HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
HANNAH MORE One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps ...
HANNAH MORE Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are,
and silently as they throw their s...
HANNAH MORE He liked those literary cooks
Who skim the cream of others' books;
And ruin half an author's g...
HANNAH MORE Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs;
Sinc...
HANNAH MORE If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow...
HANNAH MORE In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invad...
KENNETH MORE In Pakistan, it was a stop-gap arrangement. Here we would definitely go with a specialist opener.
KIRAN MORE First Thought is one of the gem of garland of Success...
Don't lose it....
Whenever a thought strike...
RAJESH MORE Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
HANNAH MORE Your eight is someone's infinity.
NITYA MORE Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatre...
HANNAH MORE Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?
HANNAH MORE He seemed evidently more fond of controversy than of truth, and the whole turn of his conversation i...
HANNAH MORE Small habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
HANNAH MORE Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
HANNAH MORE He certainly cut a swatch. He never drove anything but a fabulous convertible.
GARY MORE He was going to work on bridges in college and he decided that he really loved to draw and he got ve...
GARY MORE We never thought it was a curse of Shaquille O'Neal. It's hard to get to Austin, people don't realiz...
HERB MORE There was a long discussion on middle order batting and we thought that this is the best team we can...
KIRAN MORE He has done well in domestic cricket and has experience as well.
KIRAN MORE He has done very well in domestic cricket and his experience will be crucial in Pakistan.
KIRAN MORE He was always in the scheme of things and we had only been trying others against Sri Lanka, which is...
KIRAN MORE He has gone to Australia for treatment.
KIRAN MORE Patel has been keeping well and also chipping in with the bat in recent domestic matches so we decid...
KIRAN MORE He is playing. He has been cleared by his doctor.
KIRAN MORE Our middle-order is very strong. We have some concerns only with the opening slot.
KIRAN MORE We have some plans for the team, you don't need to know everything about it.
KIRAN MORE In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, nev...
PAUL ELMER MORE Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art;
If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart;
If stranger, ...
PAUL ELMER MORE Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 We are born knowing nothing and with much stri...
PAUL ELMER MORE We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are b...
PAUL ELMER MORE WhatEver May Be The Problems, Dont Be Afraid, Think That They Are The Questions Infront Of You As An...
P. P. GURUMAULI ANNA SAHEB MORE To become a millionaire you must become a Lion, you can't even spell millionaire without the word Li...
P. P. GURUMAULI ANNA SAHEB MORE When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and ...
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THOMAS SOWELL Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and th...
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THOMAS SCHLAMME A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
THOMAS PAINE If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
THOMAS PAINE I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll ...
THOMAS LYNCH Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
THOMAS HARRIS It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh...
CLARENCE THOMAS Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
THOMAS HOBBES Love and a red rose can't be hid.
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THOMAS SOWELL The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evi...
THOMAS SOWELL That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
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THOMAS PAINE An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
THOMAS PAINE These are the times that try men's souls.
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THOMAS PAINE Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
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THOMAS HOBBES No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
THOMAS HOBBES Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
THOMAS HOBBES Words are the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after pow...
THOMAS HOBBES Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them w...
THOMAS AQUINAS God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
THOMAS AQUINAS How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
THOMAS AQUINAS If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the...
THOMAS AQUINAS It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of...
THOMAS AQUINAS Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the pers...
THOMAS AQUINAS Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
THOMAS AQUINAS The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINE An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a...
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