Wells Quotes - Page 8

• The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Love, Inspirational, Affection

  Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”

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• Well my name Nicki & it's nice to meet ya, if you really wanna know I'll give you my procedure. Got a whole bunch of pretty game in my clique, and we looking for some ballers: alopecia

  Nicki Minaj

  Flirty, Nice, Games

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• In the fall, you don't grieve because the leaves are falling and dying. You say, "Isn't it beautiful!" Well, we're the same way. There are seasons. We all fall sooner or later. It's all so beautiful. And our concepts, without investigation, keep us from knowing this. It's beautiful to be a leaf, to be born, to fall, to give way to the next, to become food for the roots. It's life, always changing its form and always giving itself completely. We all do our part. No mistake.

  Byron Katie

  Beautiful, Mistake, Fall

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• Whatever you do, do it well.

  Pittacus of Mytilene

  Good Life

  As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 77,

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• Sweet is a grief well ended.

  Aeschylus

  Life, Wisdom, Sweet

  Aeschylus (2013). “Agamemnon in Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.86, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.

  E. W. Howe

  Love, Marriage, Husband

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• I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
  To die upon the hand I love so well

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Hands, Heaven

  William Shakespeare, Trevor R. Griffiths (1996). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.131, Cambridge University Press

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• I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Alcohol, Brain

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [34]

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• Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.

  David Cook

  Grief, Alcohol, Reactions

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• Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Adventure, Loving Life, Thinking

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• I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude.

  Paul McCartney

  Weed, Attitude, Hate

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• The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Lying, Marijuana, Law

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• Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do we see the smallest masses selected for use in Nature, that even enormous ones are built up solely by fitting these together. Indeed, all Nature's efforts are devoted to uniting the smallest parts of our bodies in such a way that all things whatsoever, however diverse they may be, which coalesce in the structure of living things construct the parts by means of a sort of compendium.

  Marcello Malpighi

  Nature, Mean, Science

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• You are one with the same force that provides the spiral arms of the galaxy. That universal creativity. It's also what you are as well. And when the mystic eye is open and sees that, a person is forever changed !

  Alex Grey

  Creativity, Eye, Forever

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• We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.

  Ugo Betti

  Bullying, Unjust, Satisfaction

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

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• In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Life, Success, Eye

  Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Intelligence, Ethics, Morality

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.238

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• In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.

  J. G. Holland

  Mistake, Men, Errors

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 349, 1895.

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• All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ephemeral, Reputation, Dignity

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (35), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Flattery, Compliment

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hope, Giving, Expectations

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• That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

  Aristotle

  Justice, Judging, Office

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book II, 1270b.39,

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• A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.

  Charles Lamb

  Knowledge, Men, Acquisition

  Charles Lamb (1855). “Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.64

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• Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Refuse

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.252, Harvard University Press

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• A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to see it done at all.

  James Boswell

  Sarcastic, Dog, Done

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