(348 quotes found)
“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
C.S. Lewis
“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.”
Compton MacKenzie Sr.
“When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.”
Calvin Coolidge
“To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“The word 'now' is like a bomb thrown through the window, and it ticks”
Arthur Miller
“Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?”
Marquis De Sade
“Why produce garbage when it is thrown away all the same”
Loesje
“I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients”
Oscar Levant
“A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing”
Samuel Johnson
“Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away”
Arthur Helps