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Geoffrey Chaucer: Time and tide...

Geoffrey Chaucer: Time and tide...

Time and tide wait for no man.

Source: In The American Library of Quotations,
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Vladimir Mayakovsky: No gray hairs...

Vladimir Mayakovsky: No gray hairs...

No gray hairs streak my soul,
no grandfatherly fondness there!
I shake the world with the might of my...

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko: In Russia all...

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: In Russia all...

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Source: A Precocious...

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Andrew Marvell: Annihilating all that's...

Andrew Marvell: Annihilating all that's...

Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade.


Source: The...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The steam<br>Floats up...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: The steam
Floats up...

The steam
Floats up from those dim fields about the homes
Of happy men that have the power to die,
And grassy...

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Luigi Pirandello: I would love...

Luigi Pirandello: I would love...

I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that...

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Ethel Watts Mumford: Said a Rooster,...

Ethel Watts Mumford: Said a Rooster,...

Said a Rooster, I'd have you all know
I am nearly the whole of the show;
Why, the Sun every morn
Gets up with...

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Colley Cibber: Prithee don't screw...

Colley Cibber: Prithee don't screw...

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Source: Narcissa,...

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Francesco Petrarch: A short cut...

Francesco Petrarch: A short cut...

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Source: In Dictionary of...

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Gwendolyn Brooks: Art is refining...

Gwendolyn Brooks: Art is refining...

Art is refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

Source: In...

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Countee Cullen: So in the...

Countee Cullen: So in the...

So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds,
And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.


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Edith Sitwell: [T]he man of...

Edith Sitwell: [T]he man of...

[T]he man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are...

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Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo: I gave the...

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo: I gave the...

I gave the ripe fruit to the Cherished One and the one-so-beautiful-as-to-bring happiness to the Beloved. But I...

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Rupert Brooke: A book may...

Rupert Brooke: A book may...

A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too...

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William Wordsworth: Neither evil tongues,...

William Wordsworth: Neither evil tongues,...

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the...

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Kathleen Turner: There's something so...

Kathleen Turner: There's something so...

There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life...

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Lana Turner: A gentleman is...

Lana Turner: A gentleman is...

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

Source: In 2,715 One-Line Quotations for...

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Marilyn Monroe: I don't mind...

Marilyn Monroe: I don't mind...

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

Source: The...

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Marilyn Monroe: It stirs up...

Marilyn Monroe: It stirs up...

It stirs up envy, fame does.

Source: In Common Fame: The Culture of Celebrity,...

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Tallulah Bankhead: I have been...

Tallulah Bankhead: I have been...

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free...

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