My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me


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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.
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That game taught me my uppercut,
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You chose books. I chose looks.
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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.
THOMAS HOLCROFT
Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the populatio...
THOMAS SOWELL
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonor...
THOMAS SOWELL
The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't t...
THOMAS SOWELL
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of ...
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.
THOMAS PAINE
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
THOMAS PAINE
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, lovi...
THOMAS PAINE
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting ...
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.
THOMAS PAINE
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value...
THOMAS PAINE
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
THOMAS PAINE
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is ...
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...
IRWIN THOMAS