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My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

A person hears only what they understand.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

In advertising, I was frustrated by having to deal with the client. It was the only time I really worked in a proper office, and I didn't like it-simple as that.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us.

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Never have children, only grandchildren.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.