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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you've ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.