(1538 quotes found)
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me”
C.S. Lewis
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets”
Voltaire
“The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.”
Eric Hoffer
“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.”
Confucius
“Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores”
W. H. Auden
“Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?”
Philip Roth
“Do I contradict myself? Very well thenI contradict myselfI am large, I contain multitudes.”
Walt Whitman
“A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.”
Horace
“I have prepared one of my own [timecapsules]. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“My library was dukedom large enough.”
William Shakespeare
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