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Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
William Powell

Friends, Rather, Solitude

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
Douglas MacArthur

Men, War, Friend

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Mignon McLaughlin

Today, Done, Wish

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Results, Ahead, Pants

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
George MacDonald

Trust, Equal, Presence

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
Charles Dickens

Less, Excitement, Pleasure

Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
Harry S. Truman

Time, History, Country

A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.
Vidal Sassoon

Woman, Before, Working

If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.
Eva Gabor

Love, Beautiful, Woman

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.
George Jean Nathan

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
George Burns

Age, Live, Past

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold

Peace, End, Cannot

I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.
Shania Twain

Life, Best, Hope

Few there are that will endure a true friend.
H. G. Bohn

True, Friend, Endure

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurber

Heaven, Known, Dogs

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
James A. Baldwin

Help, Nothing, Human

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison

Life, Friendship, Greatest

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John Ruskin

Life, Short, Reading

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.
Sean Lennon

Love, Good, Failure

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.
Gloria Steinem

Courage, Daughters, Sons

Few of us get anything without working for it.
William Feather

No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
Henry A. Kissinger

Success, Matter, Chance

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
Samuel Butler

Good, Nothing, Healthy

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
Michael Musto

Truth, Nothing, Whole

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Alexander Pope

Happy, Care, Wish

Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
Fran Lebowitz

Children, Off, Clothes

Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
Christian Dior

Women, After, Between

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Samuel Johnson

Great, Power, Expect

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Samuel Johnson

Rich, Poor, Frugality

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
Samuel Butler

Once, Since, Quiet

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