Worn Quotes

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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

  Denis Waitley

  Happy, Gratitude, Grateful

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.

  Jean Cocteau

  Funny, Hilarious, Sexy

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• We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

  Plutarch

  Life, Nature, Shoes

  "Life of Cato the Censor" by Plutarch, 1st century.

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• We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It was a great time, and I'm glad we were there. But the gimmick part has worn off.

  Billy Corgan

  Rocks, Guitar, People

  "Smashing Pumpkins: SPIN’s ‘Mellon Collie’ Cover Story, ‘Zero Worship’". Interview with Craig Marks, www.spin.com. October 23, 2015.

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• I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've worn 6-inch Louboutins. I've got no fear and no shame.

  A. J. McLean

  Dresses, Louboutins, No Fear

  "My Gay Interview With A Backstreet Boy: ‘I’m The Fag Hag’". Interview with Chris Azzopardi, pridesource.com. August 28, 2013.

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• My life is like my shoes, worn out by service.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Shoes, Life Is Like, Life Is

  Edward L. Kimball, Spencer W. Kimball (2005). “Lengthen Your Stride: The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball”, Deseret Book Company

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• We started on the pole but by Lap 150 we were ninth or 10th and we were struggling. The car was sliding around a lot, but I did not get upset. I just said, 'Let's just keep working hard.' Last year, I would have been so upset about getting passed by those cars I would have been overly aggressive and would have worn our tires out. You can't do that in a 500-mile race if you want to be strong at the end.

  Kasey Kahne

  Strong, Struggle, Race

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