Memorable Quotes - Page 26

• Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Religion, Sin, Saved

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.91, BookBaby

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• Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Work, Men

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• It is not down in any map; true places never are.

  Herman Melville

  Nature, Travel, Home

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.57

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• I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

  Bette Midler

  Funny, Humorous, Night

  "Song: 'Marriage, Movies, Madonna And Mick'". 1985.

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• I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time.

  Bette Midler

  Inspiration, Tonight, Feels

  "Heard the one about... What they find funny in America" by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

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  The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Lying, Women

  Agnes De Mille (1980). “America dances”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

  A. A. Milne

  Graduation, Education, Gambling

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• We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

  Maria Mitchell

  Country, Travel, Inspiration

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.

  Nancy Mitford

  Love, Children, Kids

  Nancy Mitford (2011). “The Penguin Complete Novels of Nancy Mitford”, p.7, Penguin UK

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• I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Fantasy, Housewife

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• Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

  Hannah More

  Funny, Women, Punishment

  Letter to her sister, 1775

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• If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

  Robert Morgan

  Problem, Poetry Is, Verses

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• Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

  Steven Morrissey

  Hair, Long, Should

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do maintain that if your hair is wrong, your entire life is wrong.

  Steven Morrissey

  Hair, Life Is, Ifs

  "McCartney and Morrissey: a match made in heaven?" by Rachel Holmes and Kate Carter, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2009.

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• When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death.
  And neither one particularly appeals to me.

  Steven Morrissey

  Life, Death, Song

  "Song: 'Nowhere Fast'". 1985.

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• I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

  Steven Morrissey

  Controversial, Easy, Pops

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.

  Steven Morrissey

  Morning, Wish, Wake Up

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• If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

  Grandma Moses

  Painting, Chickens, Raised

  "Grandma Moses, American Primitive: Forty Paintings". Book edited by Otto Kallir, 1947.

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• Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

  Alfred de Musset

  Two, Poetry, Three

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• I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Moving On, Death

  "The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)" by Anais Nin, (p. 190), March 19, 1969.

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• The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational Life, Writing, Bad Ass

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• We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Lady Macbeth, Deception

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 82

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• When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Fool, Birth

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [187]

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• I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

  William Shakespeare

  Motivational, Time, Waste

  'Richard II' (1595) act 5, sc. 5, l. 49

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