Memorable Quotes - Page 33

• Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

  William Shakespeare

  Thanksgiving, Cheer, Holiday

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1837). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.131

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• A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.

  Laura Gilpin

  Moving, Rain, Rivers

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• Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country.

  Bud Shuster

  Country, Clean Drinking Water, Environmental

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• I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Rain, Moving, Rivers

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• I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.

  Margrethe II of Denmark

  Inspirational, Adventure, Becoming

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

  Lady Randolph Churchill

  Travel, Adventure, Hands

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• Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

  A. A. Milne

  Inspirational, Life, Patience

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• Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

  Bella Abzug

  Struggle, Justice, Diversity

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

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• Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

  Hannah Arendt

  Men, Diversity, Justice

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• Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

  Alice Stone Blackwell

  Justice, Diversity, Culture

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• The Fourth of July-memorable in the history of our nation as the great day of independence to its countrymen-had no claim upon our sympathies. They made a flag and threw it to the heavens and bid it float forever; but every star in it was against us.

  Henry McNeal Turner

  Stars, July, Justice

  Henry McNeal Turner (1971). “Respect Black: the writings and speeches of Henry McNeal Turner”

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• It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

  William Shakespeare

  Intelligent, Clouds, Break Through

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3514, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Intelligent, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes”

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• My father was often angry when I was most like him.

  Lillian Hellman

  Fathers Day, Women, Anger

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• Memorable customer service can only take place in a human-to-human situation.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Educational, Situation, Inspiring Customer Service

  Jeffrey H. Gitomer (1998). “Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless: How to Make Customers Love You, Keep Them Coming Back and Tell Everyone They Know”, Bard

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• Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Men, Desire

  William Shakespeare (1720). “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. I.”, p.28

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• Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles

  Og Mandino

  Giving, Accomplishment, Miracle

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• There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand.

  Joyce Jillson

  Children, Flirty, Women

  Joyce Jillson (1986). “Fine Art of Flirting”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• He is not great who is not greatly good.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Good Life, Greatness

  William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.333

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• More than anything else, though, to anyone who would write about it, golf offers a four-hour drama in two acts, which becomes memorable even in the tape-recorded reminiscenses of old champs, and which - in the hands of someone like Herb Wind - can become a piece of war correspondence as artfully controlled as Alan Morehead's account of Gallipoli.

  Alistair Cooke

  War, Drama, Writing

  Alistair Cooke (2015). “Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.

  William Shakespeare

  Emotional, Feelings, Desdemona

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 1, l. 122

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• If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

  Mary Webb

  Life, Kindness, Generosity

  Mary Webb (1928). “Precious Bane”

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• My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Thanksgiving, Mother

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• This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.

  Dorothy Fuldheim

  Funny, Women, Age

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• A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before noon.

  Joan Rivers

  Children, Hot, Lamps

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