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Category: Quotations

Posted on November 4, 2016November 4, 2016

“To the man who is afraid, everything rustles.”—Sophocles

Posted on November 3, 2016November 3, 2016

“A good upbringing means not that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice it when someone else does.”—Anton Chekhov

Posted on November 2, 2016November 2, 2016

“A dead man cannot bite.”—Pompey, Roman general

Posted on November 1, 2016December 26, 2020

“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.”—Oliver Goldsmith, Irish playwright, 1730-1774

Posted on October 31, 2016March 18, 2021

“Extreme law is often extreme injustice.”—Terence, Roman playwright, 2nd century, BC

Posted on October 30, 2016October 30, 2016

“Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.”—Zeuxis, Greek painter

Posted on October 29, 2016October 29, 2016

“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.”—Ernest Dimnet

Posted on October 29, 2016October 29, 2016

“Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.”—Titus Maccius Plautus

Posted on October 28, 2016

“An agent is a guy who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what he makes.”—Alva Johnston, journalist

Posted on October 26, 2016October 26, 2016

“Wine is a peephole on a man.”—Alcaeus of Mytilene

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