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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Life, Fire, Guilty

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Nature, Great, God

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
Ambrose Bierce

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing, Absurd

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

God, Black, Almost

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thought, Consider, Dealing

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Herman Melville

Love, Friendship, Truth

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
Lily Tomlin

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
W. Somerset Maugham

Beauty, Simple, Nothing

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
Augustus Hare

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
Quentin Crisp

God, Woman, Atheist

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Samuel Butler

Money, School, Children

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
Terry Pratchett

Life, True, Die

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Marcel Proust

Life, Wise, Him

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
Walt Whitman

Universe, Far, Goes

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
Walt Whitman

Done, Another, Whatever

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
Calvin Coolidge

Nothing, Harm, Noticed

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Money, Freedom, Security

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
James A. Baldwin

History, Beautiful, American

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison

Mind, Understand, Might

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.
Spike Milligan

God, Light, Wait

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent

Hope, Sex, Wish

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
Benjamin Disraeli

Life, Success, Politics

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Charles Dickens

Life, Situation, Took

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
Alan Greenspan

Turn, Clear, Guess

I think George Will is somebody that said recently that the Republicans will not lose, as a Republican, that the Republicans will not win the election. I think it was a terrible statement.
Donald Trump

Win, Lose, Election

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'
Joan Rivers

I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'
Phyllis Diller

Three, Lady, Fresh

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide

Yourself, Done, Another

When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Lou Holtz

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