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No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.
— Maria Edgeworth
You can't regulate a soul into a business.
— Kevin O'Leary
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
— Jonathan Swift
I think part of making any decision in your twenties is realizing there is no twenty-four flavor table. It's a myth.
— Meg Jay
The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
— Sophie Kinsella
Passion is all very well, but it wouldn't do to spill the tea.
— Helen Simonson
Let's have a look at your paperwork," I said as I glanced at the neatly stacked forms. "Mr. Crocker.
— Denise Grover Swank
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
— Jeremy Bentham
It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
— Joseph Addison
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Silence is ever speaking; it is the perennial flow of language.
— Ramana Maharshi
A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.
— Horace Bushnell
However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
— Seneca The Younger
We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.
— C.S. Lewis
One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures.
— Josiah Gilbert Holland
What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When,
— Ford Madox Ford
The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It is also to be noticed, that the old man is distinguished by his works, as a tree is by its fruits.
— John Calvin
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
— Robert A. Heinlein
In the movies, killers are omnipotent.
— Harlan Coben
Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.
— Thomas Hobbes
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.
— Michelangelo
When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.
— Samuel Johnson
The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.
— Michael Pollan