December Quotes - Page 12

• Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December.

  Matt Goldman

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

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• A springlike autumn's balmy breeze reaches afar. The sun shines on the house of a recluse South of the river; They encourage the December apricots To burst into bloom: A simplehearted person Faces the simplehearted flowers.

  Sun Bu'er

  Flower, Autumn, Winter

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• I spring train in the winter, around early December...

  Jay-Z

  Spring, Winter, Rapper

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• When it's over it should be over. When a man is no longer at risk, he loses touch. I think these fellows who think they have some long-term right to dignity and salary and expense accounts and company planes are all wrong. On December 21, 1963 I walked out of there and said that's it: no office, no secretaries. Nothing.

  Ralph J. Cordiner

  Men, Thinking, Long

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• Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Sigh, Has Beens, Edited

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• Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes).

  Cybill Shepherd

  Men, Bigs, Rhyme

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• Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Thanksgiving, Children, Santa

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• You can tell a lot about someone's personality if you know his star sign -Jesus, born on 25 December, fed the five thousand, walked on water -typical Capricorn.

  Harry Hill

  Jesus, Stars, Astrology

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• If the October days were a cordial like the sub-acids of fruit, these are a tonic like the wine of iron. Drink deep or be careful how you taste this December vintage. The first sip may chill, but a full draught warms and invigorates.

  John Burroughs

  Wine, Winter, Vintage

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• In the suburbs it's hard to buy your Christmas gifts early in the year. You never know who your friends will be in December.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Years, Knows

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• It's hard for anyone in the 24-hour news cycles that we all live in now to follow something that the first round is played in March and the final finishes in December. I understand the challenges there.

  Jim Courier

  Challenges, Finals, News

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• Life cannot be classified in terms of a simple neurological ladder, with human beings at the top; it is more accurate to talk of different forms of intelligence, each with its strengths and weaknesses. This point was well demonstrated in the minutes before last December's tsunami, when tourists grabbed their digital cameras and ran after the ebbing surf, and all the 'dumb' animals made for the hills.

  Brian Reynolds Myers

  Animal, Simple, Political

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