A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
- Maurice Chevalier - In Old Age
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
- Calista Flockhart - In Old Age
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There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
- Salvador Dali - In Art
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
- Salvador Dali - In Art
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
- Salvador Dali - In Art
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Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
- Salvador Dali - In Art
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
- Novalis - In Art
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
- Alice Walker - In Mortality
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Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
- Muhammad Ali - In Friendship
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If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
- Alice Duer Miller - In Friendship
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Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
- Alice Duer Miller - In Friendship
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When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
- Alice Duer Miller - In Friendship
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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
- Alice Duer Miller - In Friendship
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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
- Alice Duer Miller - In Friendship
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Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
- Dante Alighieri - In History
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If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.
- Joseph Stalin - In History
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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali - In Imagination
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I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth - In Life
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When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
- Natalie Clifford Barney - In Love
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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
- J. D. Salinger - In Love
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The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
- Galileo Galilei - In Nature
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
- Alice Walker - In Nature
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I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
- Muhammad Ali - In Peace
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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
- Novalis - In Poetry
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The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
- Dante Alighieri - In Politics
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The secret of getting things done is to act!
- Dante Alighieri - In Politics
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Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most nonallied.
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto - In Politics
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It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
- Joseph Stalin - In Politics
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei - In Religion
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I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
- Muhammad Ali - In Sports
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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
- Muhammad Ali - In Sports
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
- Salvador Dali - In Success
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
- Salvador Dali - In War
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The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
- Joseph Stalin - In War
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