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We see the condition she is in, and what is admirable is not only that she reached this age, but that she got here in this shape, in very good health. – Irma Capovilla	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. – Hilaire Belloc	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples. – George Will	added by anonymous 10 years ago
No one should be astonished if in the following discussion of completely new princedoms and of the prince and of government, I bring up the noblest examples. Because, since men almost always walk in the paths beaten by others and carry on their affairs by imitatingeven though it is not possible to keep wholly in the paths of others or to attain the ability of those you imitatea prudent man will always choose to take paths beaten by great men and to imitate those who have been especially admirable, in order that if his ability does not reach theirs, at least it may offer some suggestion of it; and he will act like prudent archers, who, seeing that the mark they plan to hit is too far away and knowing what space can be covered by the power of their bows, take an aim much higher than their mark, not in order to reach with their arrows so great a height, but to be able, with the aid of so high an aim, to attain their purpose. – Niccolò Machiavelli	added by anonymous 10 years ago
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! – William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To be possessed is an admirable reason for possessing. – Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. – Mary Montagu	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it. – Charles Babbage	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. – George F. Will, Statecraft as Soulcraft	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. – Irving Wallace	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. – Cornelius Tacitus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is only one admirable form of the imagination the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen. – Sean O'Faolain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.' – Andre Gide	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it. – Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. – Delmore Schwartz	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night. – Jean Baudrillard	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. – Homer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. – George Will	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. – John Kenneth Galbraith	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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