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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. (E. B. White)
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me. View quote
William Congreve
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. View quote
Helen Keller
There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false. View quote
Harold Pinter
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. View quote
Anatole France
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself . View quote
Anne Brontë
Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade. View quote
George Steiner
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure. (Edward Young)
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other. View quote
Anton Chekhov
The sea has neither meaning nor pity. View quote
Anton Chekhov
The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished. View quote
Hermann von Helmholtz
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. View quote
Hannah Arendt
I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me he can't be any worse. View quote
Mark Twain
A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else. View quote
Pierre Corneille
There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve. View quote
Karl Popper
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. View quote
Jean Cocteau
This body, which was called and still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was not Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. View quote
Voltaire
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence. View quote
Sigmund Freud
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