There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
Jonathan Swift
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If there are any changes, it will be very few.
ALI BARANI Few there are that will endure a true friend.
HENRY GEORGE BOHN Few there are that will endure a true friend.
H. G. BOHN There are very few things that surprise me.
JUDI DENCH there are very few clues ...
BERNARD PARKS Now, very few composers write for themselves.
JENNIFER HIGDON The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to ...
HERBERT N. CASSON The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to...
HERBERT N. CASSON The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to ...
ROBERT BURTON Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.
KATHERINE PATERSON There are very few profound sayings in the world.
JEFF RICH We've made very few this time but we do make a few with as many properties as there are in the count...
LOWELL BARB There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.
BETTY SMITH There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a ...
TOBIAS WOLFF If there are very few (errors), the director will make a decision as to whether she will modify prot...
DEBORAH SCOTT It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to ...
STEPHANIE PEARL-MCPHEE There are such very few large-scale opportunities in Greenwich.
JOSEPH BENINATI I have grown to realize that there are very few impossibilities in our world.
ERIN FORBES There are a few that are running, but it's really just a few.
ERIC CORNELIUS There are very few fishermen left today.
PAUL WATSON There will be very few companies who have that scale to build that infrastructure.
RAY OZZIE The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.
SOURCE UNKNOWN There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few p...
ELIZABETH WARREN There are very few things in the body that nitric oxide doesn't regulate.
FERID MURAD As a result, there will be very few orders won (by German companies).
JOCHEN CLAUSNITZER There are quite a few vehicles in the ditch, quite a few reports of vehicles that are losing control...
JOE TAPLIN He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
HALIFAX There are very few large and many poor feelings in everyone's life.
ALBERT CAMUS I think most of your big players are doing something very similar now. There will be a few things th...
ERIC SCHWARTZ There are very, very few companies that can boast of a balanced budget year after year without inter...
MARC SCORCA In one area (of Camilla hit by a tornado) there are about 200 mobile homes and there are very few of...
JAY POWELL He changed our team's persona and intensity on the defensive end.
MARK FEW I'm ecstatic. I'm so proud of this group of guys. They just had a steely resolve tonight.
MARK FEW The theme seems to be going toward thug ball. We should be shooting 60 free throws per game.
MARK FEW It's like being with the Stones and Beatles.
MARK FEW He's a fiery, fiery competitor. His greatest attribute is not that he makes shots, it's how hard he ...
MARK FEW The latest technologies are often sexy, but beware of solutions that vendors dress up like trollops,...
STEPHEN FEW You don't want to lose sight of just how amazing he is. You've got to kick yourself once in a while ...
MARK FEW Plus we can score in different ways, which is good, because last year we depended way too much on Bl...
MARK FEW He's just got a knack for hitting closely guarded shots. And there aren't many players who can do th...
MARK FEW I was really apprehensive about this game and the key is we took care of the ball in the second half...
MARK FEW He's awfully proud of it.
MARK FEW He's probably the least politically correct of any of our guys and he doesn't seem to mind inciting ...
MARK FEW It's reached the point of ridiculous. He's so not interested in all that.
MARK FEW I don't think guys should ever say that. They are questioning the integrity of the game of basketbal...
MARK FEW Teams have been coming at us all year. We get everyone's best shot and the last (few) games were no ...
MARK FEW I'm really impressed with how we showed up and finished off 14-0. I don't care how you get there, it...
MARK FEW That's quite a select group we are in. I'm proud of all the guys that have been here and put everyth...
MARK FEW It's been a tough year. We've had to milk, and pull, and milk and pull ...
MARK FEW ...I love to drive fast. It's a rush.
STEPHEN FEW There are very few actors who are truly good at improvising; that's a real skill.
ALEX KURTZMAN Chances are that the number of teachers that will be impacted by this will be very few.
DR. SEUSS There are very few LeBron James and Kobe Bryants.
STEVE ALFORD There are few things that will remain constant over the long run.
STEVEN REDHEAD There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.
ERIN MCKEAN There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.
MARGERY ALLINGHAM There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursu...
MICHAEL NOLAN There are very few stories from those that were actually there, ... (and) his story was breathtaking...
BERNIE FARBER There are very few really stark black and white stories.
JIM LEHRER Passion: there are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your hear...
UNKNOWN There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high ex...
SCOTT ADAMS There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high ex...
SCOTT ADAMS Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above th...
VOLTAIRE Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, ...
FABRIZIO MOREIRA There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.
ULYSSES S. GRANT Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
ANTONIO PORCHIA There are very few issues that concern us more than the safety of our community,
BILL PURCELL There are very few programs treating this type of addiction. There is nothing.
CAROL REEVES I would say there are very few fixed-rate cards left.
CURTIS ARNOLD There is no doubt that if you are a bass fisherman, you will learn a few tricks,
BOB GOODMAN There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes...
DR. JAMES C. DOBSON There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few wome...
LEAH WARD SEARS We now look forward to a swift finalization of this transaction. We expect this to happen in the ......
PATRICK SEYLER There is a growing sense even in industry that the future is going to be a carbon-constrained future...
DAVID MCINTOSH There are very few people who honestly admit that they are diplomatic, and rest diplomatically say t...
SATEJ RAMESH PRABHU Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are...
JEAN TOOMER Very few people in the USA realize that a nuclear war was waged with nature in the southwest by thei...
STEVEN MAGEE Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.
W.B. YEATS There are very few nearly perfect plays. 'Streetcar' is one of them,
ROBERT E. LEE There are actually very few US politicians who have integrity and vision.
DAVID KORTEN I think he would consider that there are very few issues that are so dangerous that they can't be di...
BOB WESTBROOK We need to educate boaters in waters that are shallow to watch for the signs. There are very few nav...
DAVID RAY There are very few highway-safety champions in Congress, and he is definitely one of them.
BARBARA HARSHA There are many wonderful orchestras in the world, but very few who have a character or personality o...
DANIEL BARENBOIM There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or m...
CHARLES DICKENS There are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.
AMOR TOWLES You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who a...
FRIDA KAHLO Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above ...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) In the next few years, there will be a very big change. Our goal is to be the leading player in this...
JON VON TETZCHNER There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.
CHINESE PROVERB In a broken nest there are few whole eggs.
CHINESE PROVERB I'm hearing that there are quite a few people who are interested in doing it.
DAVE STEVENS There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of get...
DAVID KARP Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in l...
GRAYDON CARTER There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
ISAAC HANSON Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.
ANISH KAPOOR There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
ANDRE GIDE
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pitchfork.
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hives with honey and wax, thus furnis...
JONATHAN SWIFT Convey a libel in a frown.
And wink a reputation down!
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Inherits every virtue sound,
As emblems of the sovereign p...
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Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller sti...
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JONATHAN SWIFT Never sleeping, still awake,
Pleasing most when most I speak;
The delight of old and young,
...
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JONATHAN SWIFT The rolling fictions grow in strength and size,
Each author adding to the former lies.
JONATHAN SWIFT I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats
and dogs.
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JONATHAN SWIFT No wise man ever wished to be younger.
JONATHAN SWIFT A college joke to cure the dumps.
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JONATHAN SWIFT He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
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money, and hide them in a hole, whic...
JONATHAN SWIFT Hail, fellow, well met,
All dirty and wet:
Find out, if you can,
Who's master, who's man...
JONATHAN SWIFT They never would hear,
But turn the deaf ear,
As a matter they had no concern in.
JONATHAN SWIFT Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.
[Lat., Libertas et natale solum.]
JONATHAN SWIFT Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem
JONATHAN SWIFT May you live all the days of your life.
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JONATHAN SWIFT I row after health like a waterman...
JONATHAN SWIFT He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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JONATHAN SWIFT The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides,
While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
JONATHAN SWIFT I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand
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JONATHAN SWIFT I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth
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JONATHAN SWIFT Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Every dog must have his day.
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JONATHAN SWIFT A lie is an excuse guarded
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JONATHAN SWIFT When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest
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JONATHAN SWIFT Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
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