Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
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TWO CHAINZ In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains.
TWO CHAINZ I can say sincerely, don't take your voice for granted. It is truly what makes us all equal.
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JOHN C. MAXWELL The two breasts of a woman signifies,gates of double pleasure.
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JONATHAN SWIFT He grunted. 'You have the courage of a warrior.'
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TREY GOWDY B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two; Once prized for the function, Now for the view
ROBERT PAUL SMITH To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility.
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE There are two causes for "burning": passionate desires coming from our thoughts, and flirting.
SUNDAY ADELAJA There are two causes of "burning": passionate desires coming from our thoughts, and flirting.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY Love is like the sunrise; hope appeared at the same time on two faces and in two souls connected by ...
MARIANA FULGER One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in eq...
ROBERT COLLIER Think for youself but not because I said so!
NALA THE TWO DOLLAR PHILOSOPHER And it means snapshots, because that's what all stories I write come down to; each is a snapshot of ...
CAITLíN R. KIERNAN A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking...
EDGAR BRONFMAN, SR. Jonathan has cut and blow-dried his way into popular culture and our viewers have embraced his journ...
LAUREN ZALAZNICK Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift me...
CHARLES DICKENS On all nine of those occasions, the president fondled and kissed her bare breasts. He touched her ge...
KEN STARR Doing two or more things at the same time splits our consciousness in two or more ways.
EKNATH EASWARAN To embark on the journey towards your goals and dreams requires bravery. To remain on that path requ...
STEVE MARABOLI All are born with extremely good and evil hungry desires. The question lies; in which of the two, do...
ENRIQUE VEGA No two days are the same in this factory.
DIANE SCHRADER I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
KATE HUDSON Scientific thought and the miraculous unconscious are two waves in the same ocean.
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P. J. O'ROURKE A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.
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TONY SNOW You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benev...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Devil and God – two sides of the same face.
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CARL DUKE Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
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DAVE VACLAVIK You can't row a boat in two directions at the same time
CHARLES BOWER same kind of defiance as in his previous two appearances.
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MARQUIS DE SADE I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life.
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CLARENCE CLEMONS We're both kind of swift, we're kind of the same.
TONY DIXON These aren't two separate problems. In many instances the responses are the same.
FRANCIS FUKUYAMA England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We are all driven by two desires: the desire for others to notice we exist, and the desire for someo...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI You have two choices in life...Choice one is to be the same and be like everyone else...Choice two i...
JAZLYN ROEHL When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile th...
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Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast gre...
JONATHAN SWIFT Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
JONATHAN SWIFT We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
JONATHAN SWIFT Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
JONATHAN SWIFT If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would
not have given them to such a sco...
JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be pu...
JONATHAN SWIFT If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scou...
JONATHAN SWIFT Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
JONATHAN SWIFT The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false op...
JONATHAN SWIFT Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he canno...
JONATHAN SWIFT I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my ju...
JONATHAN SWIFT The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his w...
JONATHAN SWIFT A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch...
JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT The most positive men are the most credulous.
JONATHAN SWIFT May you live every day of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e...
JONATHAN SWIFT Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
JONATHAN SWIFT Don't set your wit against a child.
JONATHAN SWIFT Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with ...
JONATHAN SWIFT It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdo...
JONATHAN SWIFT Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
JONATHAN SWIFT The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
JONATHAN SWIFT Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will ...
JONATHAN SWIFT What some people invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you pleas...
JONATHAN SWIFT In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my he...
JONATHAN SWIFT Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
JONATHAN SWIFT We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
JONATHAN SWIFT Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the wor...
JONATHAN SWIFT Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
JONATHAN SWIFT Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
JONATHAN SWIFT One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish h...
JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to...
JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positio...
JONATHAN SWIFT The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFT For the rest,
Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through e...
JONATHAN SWIFT What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
JONATHAN SWIFT I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFT One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in ...
JONATHAN SWIFT 'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
JONATHAN SWIFT I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib...
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a...
JONATHAN SWIFT Come, agree, the law's costly.
JONATHAN SWIFT There's none so blind as they that won't see.
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh...
JONATHAN SWIFT Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT But when a Man
JONATHAN SWIFT Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
JONATHAN SWIFT I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ...
JONATHAN SWIFT Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...
JONATHAN SWIFT I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a
pitchfork.
JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positi...
JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears
of corn, or two blades of grass, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.
JONATHAN SWIFT Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
JONATHAN SWIFT Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFT Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a...
JONATHAN SWIFT How we apples swim.
JONATHAN SWIFT Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our
hives with honey and wax, thus furnis...
JONATHAN SWIFT Convey a libel in a frown.
And wink a reputation down!
JONATHAN SWIFT For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been...
JONATHAN SWIFT Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
JONATHAN SWIFT They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
JONATHAN SWIFT What some invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT I heard the little bird say so.
JONATHAN SWIFT A prince, the moment he is crown'd,
Inherits every virtue sound,
As emblems of the sovereign p...
JONATHAN SWIFT Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking
what nobody else has thought.
JONATHAN SWIFT So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller sti...
JONATHAN SWIFT A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT In all distresses of our friends
We first consult our private ends;
While Nature, kindly bent ...
JONATHAN SWIFT A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to
him.
JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams
out of cucumbers, which were to be p...
JONATHAN SWIFT Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts wit...
JONATHAN SWIFT Necessity is the mother of invention.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that th...
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally
discover everybody's face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguishe...
JONATHAN SWIFT We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT Never sleeping, still awake,
Pleasing most when most I speak;
The delight of old and young,
...
JONATHAN SWIFT Bread is the staff of life.
JONATHAN SWIFT Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
JONATHAN SWIFT Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength....
JONATHAN SWIFT Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.
JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in con...
JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by this sign, that the dines are all in co...
JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture...
JONATHAN SWIFT Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
JONATHAN SWIFT Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
JONATHAN SWIFT As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
JONATHAN SWIFT No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from...
JONATHAN SWIFT There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
JONATHAN SWIFT Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest ...
JONATHAN SWIFT There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
JONATHAN SWIFT Books, the children of the brain.
JONATHAN SWIFT Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their ow...
JONATHAN SWIFT When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in c...
JONATHAN SWIFT Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules ...
JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy ...
JONATHAN SWIFT Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by...
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT What some invent, the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder pe...
JONATHAN SWIFT Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves ...
JONATHAN SWIFT The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and fals...
JONATHAN SWIFT The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
JONATHAN SWIFT Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT No wise man ever wished to be younger.
JONATHAN SWIFT A college joke to cure the dumps.
JONATHAN SWIFT Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us th...
JONATHAN SWIFT He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in c...
JONATHAN SWIFT Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
JONATHAN SWIFT Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
JONATHAN SWIFT I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch...
JONATHAN SWIFT When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in co...
JONATHAN SWIFT We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonath...
JONATHAN SWIFT An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFT It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have...
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
JONATHAN SWIFT Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched ...
JONATHAN SWIFT One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonab...
JONATHAN SWIFT Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little cons...
JONATHAN SWIFT A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he i...
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
JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to...
JONATHAN SWIFT I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth
JONATHAN SWIFT For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every...
JONATHAN SWIFT Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
JONATHAN SWIFT I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious...
JONATHAN SWIFT Every dog must have his day.
JONATHAN SWIFT One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonab...
JONATHAN SWIFT Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretenses to for...
JONATHAN SWIFT Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perver...
JONATHAN SWIFT Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.
JONATHAN SWIFT A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone
JONATHAN SWIFT War is the child of Pride, and Pride the daughter of Riches.
JONATHAN SWIFT I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed
JONATHAN SWIFT Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer an...
JONATHAN SWIFT The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman
JONATHAN SWIFT Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruption.
JONATHAN SWIFT The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been...
JONATHAN SWIFT A lie is an excuse guarded
JONATHAN SWIFT Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest
JONATHAN SWIFT What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly
JONATHAN SWIFT Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
JONATHAN SWIFT Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
JONATHAN SWIFT Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
JONATHAN SWIFT Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion
JONATHAN SWIFT Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titill...
JONATHAN SWIFT All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this ye...
JONATHAN SWIFT In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends
JONATHAN SWIFT It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
JONATHAN SWIFT Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us th...
JONATHAN SWIFT Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller...
JONATHAN SWIFT The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowde...
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