Worn Quotes

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Ambrose Bierce

Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Iris Murdoch

Italian, Shoes, Boots

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

Denis Waitley

Happy, Gratitude, Grateful

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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

Hunter S. Thompson

Life, Death, Suicide

FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 01, 2015

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For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

Ernest Hemingway

Baby, Shoes

"10 works of literature that were really hard to write" by Mark Juddery, www.cnn.com. January 16, 2011.

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A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Robert Frost

Successful, Law, Feet

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

Denis Waitley

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives.

Henry David Thoreau

Book, Style, Would Be

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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... continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the mind barren, and, like the scorching sands of Arabia, produces nothing; or, like the uncultivated soil, brings forth thorns and thistles. Again, continual hard labor irritates our tempers and sours our dispositions; the whole system become worn out with toil and fatigue; nature herself becomes almost exhausted, and we care but little whether we live or die.

Maria W. Stewart

Ideas, Soul, Mind

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The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

Terry Southern

Writing, Important, Capacity

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What worn-out shticks are blinding you to the blessings that life is conspiring to give you?

Rob Brezsny

Blessing, Giving, Life Is

Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.62, Frog Books

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To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.

George Orwell

Art, Latin, Struggle

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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

Ezra Pound

Errors, Essentials, Literature

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To be worn out is to be renewed.

Laozi

Worn Out

Laozi (2008). “Daodejing: A Literal-critical Translation”, University Press of Amer

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational, Life, True Joy

Man and Superman epistle dedicatory (1903)

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The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.

Jean Cocteau

Funny, Hilarious, Sexy

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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

John D. Rockefeller

Motivational, Change, Success

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

Hunter S. Thompson

Travel, Adventure, Journey

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

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When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Change, Men, Views

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2013). “Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion”, p.54, eBookIt.com

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Believe that you can run farther or faster. Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. Don't let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.

John Bingham

Running, Strong, Believe

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I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape.

Richard Scarry

Book, Scotch, Creating

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If there were a mile high mountain of granite, and once every ten-thousand years a bird flew past and brushed it with a feather, by the time that mountain was worn away, a fraction of a second would have passed in the context of eternity

Lois Duncan

Past, Years, Bird

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If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mean, Clothes, Too Much

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.125, New Directions Publishing

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You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.

Sebastian Faulks

Names, Recalls

Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.

William Faulkner

Air, Long, Sound

William Faulkner “The Sound and the Fury”, W. W. Norton & Company

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