Another Famous Quotes

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1816
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. -Jane
Austen, Mansfield Park, 1816
Aristotle, Rhetoric, W. Rhys Roberts, tr., 1954
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Happiness [is] prosperity combined with virtue. -Aristotle, Rhetoric,
W. Rhys Roberts, tr., 1954
Ogden Nash, "Interoffice Memorandum," I'm a Stranger Here Myself, 1938
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There is only one way to achieve happiness / on this terrestrial ball, /
And that is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all. -Ogden
Nash, "Interoffice Memorandum," I'm a Stranger Here Myself, 1938
George Bernard Shaw, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism, 1928
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Those who try to make life one long holiday find that they need a
holiday from that too. -George Bernard Shaw, The Intelligent Woman's
Guide to Socialism, Capitalism, Sovietism and Fascism, 1928
Henry David Thoreau, journal entry, 11 March 1856
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are
the cheapest.
-Henry David Thoreau, journal entry, 11 March 1856
Edna Ferber, Saratoga Trunk, 1941
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Most people don't know how to have a good time, any more than
spoiled children. I show them. I spend their money for them, and
they're grateful for it. I've got nothing to lose, because I live by my
wits. They can't take that away from me. -Edna Ferber, Saratoga
Trunk, 1941
Dorothy Parker, "The Flaw in Paganism," 1936
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Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, / Love the reeling midnight
through, / For tomorrow we shall die! / (But, alas, we never do.)
-Dorothy Parker, "The Flaw in Paganism," 1936
Alice Walker, By the Light of My Father's Smile, 1998
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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out.
-Alice Walker, By the Light of My Father's Smile, 1998
Omar Khayyám, "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám," Edward FitzGerald, tr., 1859
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Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, / Before we too into the
Dust descend. -Omar Khayyám, "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám,"
Edward FitzGerald, tr., 1859
Jane Austen, Emma, ​​1816
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
-Jane Austen, Emma, ​​1816

Chocolate Quotes

sweet waves

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Chocolate flows in deep dark, sweet waves, a river to ignite my mind and alert my senses

 

Jasmine Heiler

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"Chocolate is the only aromatherapy I need." - Jasmine Heiler

 

Emily Luchetti

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"After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers." - Emily Luchetti

 

Linda Solegato

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"A little chocolate is like a love affair - an occasional sweet release that lightens the spirit. A lot of chocolate is like marriage - it seems so good at first but before you know it you've got chunky hips and a waddle-walk." - Linda Solegato

 

Anonymous

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"Chocolate: Here today ... Gone today!" - Anonymous

Life Quotes

Adrienne Rich, untitled poem,Poems: Selected and New (1950–1974), 1974

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A friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death. / The rest
are actors who want me to stay and further the plot. —Adrienne Rich,
untitled poem,Poems: Selected and New (1950–1974), 1974

Booker T. Washington, The Story of My Life and Work, vol. I, 1900

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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help
someone else. —Booker T. Washington, The Story of My Life and Work,
vol. I, 1900

Henry David Thoreau, “Wednesday,” A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers,1849

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They cherish each other’s hopes. They are kind to each other’s dreams.
—Henry David Thoreau, “Wednesday,” A Week on the Concord and
Merrimack Rivers,1849

Jane Austen, Persuasion,1818

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“My idea of good company, Mr. Elliot, is a
company of clever, well-informed people, who
have a great deal of conversation; that is what
I call good company.” // “You are mistaken,”
said he, gently, “that is not good company;
that is the best.”
—Jane Austen, Persuasion,1818

Quotes about high school

 

quotes about high school

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But were you to give up that impossible idea [of security] and focus on
freedom, on connection, on compassion—I tell you, it’s a glorious life!
—Eve Ensler, quoted by Marianne Schnall

 

high school quote

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You must train the children to their studies in a playful manner, and
without any air of constraint, with the further object of discerning
more readily the natural bent of their respective characters. —Plato,
The Republic

 

quotes about school

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Such ignorance. All the boys were in military schools and all the girls
were in the convent, and that’s all you need to say about it. —Katherine
Anne Porter, quoted by Henry Allen, Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles),
1974

 

quotes for school

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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s
soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there,
and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion …. —Muriel
Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1961

 

quotes on school

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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
—Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907

 

elementary school quotes

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Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a
penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the
reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems. —Ellen
Key, The Century of the Child, 1909

 

school inspirational quotes

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When I was in high school, I was in the French club. We didn’t really
do anything. Once in a while, we’d surrender to the German club.
—Brian Kiley, Jokes, Getlen

 

last day of school quotes

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Education is that which remains if one has
forgotten everything else he learned in school.
—Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years, 1950

 

Hope & Chance Quotes

Yogi Berra, “Yogi-isms,” yogiberra.com

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If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll wind up somewhere else.
—Yogi Berra, “Yogi-isms,” yogiberra.com

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Culture,”The Conduct of Life, 1860

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I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run
away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and
run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Culture,”The Conduct of Life, 1860

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, 1841

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Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the
indifference of places. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance,” Essays:
First Series, 1841

 

George Bernard Shaw, letter (1899), Collected Letters, 1972

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical
condition of healthy life except fresh air …. It is a guzzling, lounging,
gambling, dog’s life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
—George Bernard Shaw, letter (1899), Collected Letters, 1972

 

Edna St. Vincent Millay, “To the Not Impossible Him,”A Few Figs from Thistles, 1920

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The fabric of my faithful love / No power shall dim or ravel / Whilst
I stay here—but oh, my dear, / If I should ever travel! —Edna St.
Vincent Millay, “To the Not Impossible Him,”A Few Figs from Thistles,
1920

 

Ernest Hemingway, letter (1950), Selected Letters, Carlos Baker, ed., 1981

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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write
standing up. —Ernest Hemingway, letter (1950), Selected Letters, Carlos
Baker, ed., 1981

 

Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines, 1958

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I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they
are wonderful things for other people to go on. —Jean Kerr, The Snake
Has All the Lines, 1958

 

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,1885

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I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide,
forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.
I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath,
and then says to myself, “All right, then, I’ll
GO to hell.”
—Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,1885

 

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, North to the Orient, 1935

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There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way
before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second
into new uncharted seas. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh, North to the
Orient, 1935

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Cockayne,” English Traits, 1856

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If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but
he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down,
and hits on extraordinary discoveries. —Ralph Waldo Emerson,
“Cockayne,” English Traits, 1856

Goodbye Quotes

Fran Drescher, Cancer Schmancer, 2002
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... I was never one to leave anything. I had trouble parting with our old
'78 Buick. -Fran Drescher, Cancer Schmancer, 2002

 Judith Viorst, intro-duction, Necessary Losses, 1986
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We lose not only through death, but also by leaving and being left,
by changing and letting go and moving on. And our losses include
not only our separations and departures from those we love, but our
conscious and unconscious losses of romantic dreams, impossible
expectations, illusions of freedom and power, illusions of safety-and
the loss of our own younger self, the self that thought it would always
be unwrinkled and invulnerable and immortal. -Judith Viorst, intro-duction, Necessary Losses, 1986

 Mark Twain, Autobiography, Charles Neider, ed., 1959
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It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather
together the details and thus learn and know the whole extent of the
loss. -Mark Twain, Autobiography, Charles Neider, ed., 1959

 Juana Inés de la Cruz, "Disillusionment," A Sor Juana Anthology, Alan S. Trueblood, tr., 1988
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In loss itself / I find assuagement: / having lost the treasure, / I've noth-ing to fear. -Juana Inés de la Cruz, "Disillusionment," A Sor Juana
Anthology, Alan S. Trueblood, tr., 1988

 Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji, 1001-1015
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Think not that I have come in quest of common flowers; but rather
to bemoan the loss of one whose scent has vanished from the air.
-Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji, 1001-1015

 - "Elegy Before Death," Second April, 1921-Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Spring will not ail nor summer falter; /
Nothing will know that you are gone ....
- "Elegy Before Death," Second April, 1921
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

 "Fatal Interview," 1931
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The heart once broken is a heart no more, /
And is absolved from all a heart must be.
- "Fatal Interview," 1931

 Katherine Anne Porter, "Theft," Flowering Judas and Other Stories, 1930
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... All that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together,
and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses. -Katherine
Anne Porter, "Theft," Flowering Judas and Other Stories, 1930

 Gregory Maguire, Wicked, 1995
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Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone. -Gregory Maguire, Wicked,
1995

 Mark Twain, Pudd'n'head Wilson, 1894
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Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the under-taker will be sorry. -Mark Twain, Pudd'n'head Wilson, 1894

Inspirational Quotes

Texas Guinan, nightclub act

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Success has killed more men than bullets. —Texas Guinan, nightclub
act

Barbara Walters, quoted in Newsweek (New York), 1974

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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima
donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the
nice things come out. —Barbara Walters, quoted in Newsweek (New
York), 1974

Maria Edgeworth,The Will, 1800

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How success changes the opinion of men! —Maria Edgeworth,The
Will, 1800

Gertrude Stein, Everybody’s Autobiography, 1937

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… it is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding. —Gertrude Stein,
Everybody’s Autobiography, 1937

Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas, 1938

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If people are highly successful in their professions they lose their
senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes.
They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time
for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion—the relations
between one thing and another. Humanity goes …. —Virginia Woolf,
Three Guineas, 1938

Phyllis McGinley, “How to Get Along with Men,” The Province of the Heart, 1959

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Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday’s trium-phant Cause. —Phyllis McGinley, “How to Get Along with Men,” The
Province of the Heart, 1959

Enid Bagnold, The Happy Foreigner, 1920

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inspirational proverbs
EARTH has her usual delights—which can be met with six days out of
the seven. But here and there upon grey earth there exist, like the fly-ing of sunlight, celestial pleasures also
—and one of these is the heaven of success. —Enid Bagnold, The Happy Foreigner, 1920

Marguerite Blessington, “La Marquise Le Villeroi to Miss Montressor,”The Victims of Society, 1837

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… with a good fortune, a brilliant position, and a weak, indulgent
husband, what more could she desire? —Marguerite Blessington, “La
Marquise Le Villeroi to Miss Montressor,”The Victims of Society, 1837

Mae West, I’m No Angel,1933

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She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder
of success, wrong by wrong.
—Mae West, I’m No Angel,1933

Olive Schreiner,The Story of an African Farm, 1883

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The surest sign of fitness is success. —Olive Schreiner,The Story of an
African Farm, 1883