What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
Norman Douglas
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C. JOYBELL C. Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
MARGARET THATCHER All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.
NORMAN WISDOM In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime wa...
NORMAN WISDOM I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.
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GARY F EVANS... Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise?
Because all else is temporary, while beauty...
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THOMAS CARLYLE One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.
LIU BINYAN Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Norman is a loyal and trusted friend and does everything for my family. Norman made a foot-in-the-mo...
LIZZ GAGNON What is man? He's just a collection of chemicals with delusions of grandeur.
AYN RAND The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
VAN WYCK BROOKS I love Bobby Douglas. When you think of wrestling, you think of Coach Douglas.
CAEL SANDERSON We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN A Norman Rockwell kind of town.
TONI DENHAM All's well that carries on well
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J. GRANT HOWARD At the heart of what we do is our collection.
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BYUNG-HYUN KIM A fine giornata ci sono poche persone intorno a voi che vogliono veramente vedervi sereni, felici e ...
C. JOYBELL C. If you try to save wisdom until the world is wise, Father, the world will never have it.
WALTER M. MILLER JR. What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
JOHN MILTON It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN My collection is all about Cochise County.
JUAN FLORES I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes hist...
GABBY DOUGLAS Fear isn't real, it's a collection of thoughts you creat...fear is what you make it
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.
RICHARD J. DALEY Patrimony is the collection of possessions; matrimony is the collection of losses!!!
LUISA HELLING-KOHLER To higher and higher platitudes.
RICHARD J. DALEY This is the first year that all of the clothing companies have a collection of evening separates,
CAROLYN MOSS I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit...
JOHN RHYS-DAVIES Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called ex...
DENIS WAITLEY [Douglas told a New York Daily News columnist that his report of a Douglas-Dowd relationship] got me...
ELIZABETH VARGAS How you see the world is a reflection of what is within you.
STEPHEN RICHARDS The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
WILFRID SELLARS FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ...
LERCHE NJANG A Douglas fir, when it dies, hosts thousands of species.
MARK HARMON You see, it’s about empathy. It’s not about you. It’s about empathy. It’s not even about car...
C. JOYBELL C. As is the curse of Humanity. We constantly rediscover the old and sing platitudes of its newness.
J.D. BREWER What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyieldi...
LEN DEIGHTON Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge,...
KAHLIL GIBRAN A dead heart is a dead life; keep your heart alive; let your heart beat for something unique!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To Miss Cooper
Cousin,
Conscious of the Charming Character which in every Country, and eve...
JANE AUSTEN Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
AESCHYLUS Memory is the mother of all wisdom
AESCHYLUS Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstei...
JOE THEISMAN Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
JOE THEISMANN Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
JOE THEISMAN She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is what it is and so is my determination to change 'what is' into a better 'is'.
BRANDON A. TREAN What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?
ED WEEKS After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.
EDWARD R. MURROW Well, that's what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to...
ALEXANDER PAYNE Day is just a collection of hours.
SERJ TANKIAN This is a great collection of colleagues.
CORBIN JOHNSTON Europe is a collection of free countries.
DOUGLAS FEITH Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.
GERALD BRENAN Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
ARISTOTLE Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.
ISOCRATES Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
TERESA COLLINS Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Conventional wisdom says if you're getting a large refund, it's a bad thing, that you've lent money ...
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C. JOYBELL C. The word genius isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
JOE THEISMAN We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.
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NORMAN AUGUSTINE Cynicism is intellectual treason.
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NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
NORMAN MAILER There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
NORMAN MAILER