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Not even old age knows how to love death.
Sophocles

Love, Age, Death

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
Malcolm Forbes

Someone, Enough, Read

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Knowing, Escape

No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Publilius Syrus

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift

Men, Strength, Sometimes

Folly always knows the answer.
Mason Cooley

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.
Mason Cooley

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.
Bobby Orr

God, Sports, School

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
Laurence J. Peter

Thinks, Expert, Cutting

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
Shirley MacLaine

Person, Laugh, Himself

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Age, Heart, Hair

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William Cowper

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
Franklin P. Jones

Afraid, Bravery

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
Wilson Mizner

Good, After, While

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
Charles Kettering

Time, Stupid, Done

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
David Herbert Lawrence

Girl, Her, Means

Man knows so much and does so little.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Virgil

Woman, Able, Cares

God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.
Charles Stanley

God, Character, Children

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
Herman Melville

Soul, Speak, Sea

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
Roger Moore

Love, Good, Home

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.
Alice Walker

Long, Done, America

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
Bette Davis

End, Stars, Ourselves

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson

Strength, Against, Swimming

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.
Robert Collier

Nothing, Goal, Against

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Gertrude Stein

Sure, Everybody, Careful

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
Mary McLeod Bethune

Human, Soul, Might

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
John Locke

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
Ann Landers

Sorrow, Drink, Swim

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
John Donne

Love, Time, Days

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