“ I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ A good preacher should have these qualities and virtues: first, to teach systematically; second, he should have a ready wit; third, he should be eloquent; fourth, he should have a good voice; fifth, a good memory; sixth, he should know when to make an end; seventh, he should be sure of his doctrine; eighth, he should venture and engage body and blood, wealth and honor, in the world; ninth, he should suffer himself to be mocked and jeered of everyone. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
- 158
“ Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football. ”
- Anthony Burgess- Copy
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“ Let us remember that in just a couple of decades the number of Estonians seeing the New Year will be one-fifth less than today. ”
- Arnold Ruutel- Copy
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“ Most of the complexity of the stories has developed as the stories came along That, in part, may be what has delayed the writing of the fifth and sixth novelettes in the series. ”
- James Gunn- Copy
- 655
“ Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene — nine-tenths of it! ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment. ”
- William Lilly- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men. ”
- Henry B. Adams- Copy
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“ I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. ”
- John Barrymore- Copy
- 2.7K
“ It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. ”
- Samuel Levenson- Copy
- 1.6K
“ I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did. ”
- Jeff Foxworthy- Copy
- 1.8K
“ For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum. ”
- J. W. Schopf- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief. ”
- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort- Copy
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“ For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda. ”
- Phyllis Battelle- Copy
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“ If Iraqi disarmament were a five-lap race, we would be three quarters of the way around the fifth and final lap. ”
- Richard Butler- Copy
- 78
“ I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did. ”
- Jeff Foxworthy- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The privilege against self-incrimination is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to make himself civilized… The Fifth is a lone sure rock in time of storm … a symbol of the ultimate moral sense of the community, upholding the best in us. ”
- Erwin Griswold- Copy
- 1.6K
“ I'll answer it straight to America. I'm not going to appoint a judge to the Court who's going to undo a constitutional right, whether it's the First Amendment, or the Fifth Amendment, or some other right that's given under our courts today - under the Constitution… ”
- John F. Kerry- Copy
- 377
“ By 1880 four different lines of railroad were running through to the Pacific States, and a fifth, the Denver and Rio Grande, had penetrated through the mountains of Colorado and across Utah to the Great Salt Lake. ”
- John Moody- Copy
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“ The fifth and by far the most important reason is that stoning is literally a means of crushing the murderer's head by means of a rock, which is symbolic of God. This is analogous to the crushing of the head of the serpent in Genesis 3:15. This symbolism testifies to the final victory of God over all the hosts of Satan… ”
- Gary North- Copy
- 945
“ I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson. ”
- Emo Philips- Copy
- 3.5K
“ There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way… ”
- Rogers Turrentine- Copy
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“ The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: "he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.". ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
- 132
“ I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight. ”
- Ron Perlman- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making. ”
- Leigh Hunt- Copy
- 4K
“ I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal. ”
- Enid Bagnold- Copy
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