“ What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men. ”
- Bhagavad Gita- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Ah me! from real happiness we stray,By vice bewilder'd; vice which always leads.However fair at first, to wilds of woe. ”
- James Thomson- Copy
- 4K
“ Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows just one thing. So Shakespeare is a typical fox; Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are typical hedgehogs. Now, I'm a typical hedgehog… ”
- Colin Wilson- Copy
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“ So as a prince is forced to know how to act like a beast, he must learn from the fox and the lion; becouse the lion is defenceless against traps and the fox is defenceless against wolves. Therefore one must be a fox in order to recognise traps and lion to frighten off wolves. ”
- Niccolo Macbiavelli- Copy
- 2.9K
“ In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
- 236
“ An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox. ”
- Francois Truffaut- Copy
- 2K
“ Goodbye Mr. Zanuck: it certainly has been a pleasure working at 16th Century Fox. ”
- Jean Renoir- Copy
- 230
“ Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. ”
- George Gordon Byron- Copy
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“ Only as time went on, did I begin to realize that Fox News Channel wasn't a news-type organization. It was a political propaganda machine. ”
- Jon Du Pre- Copy
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“ Are we to have a church in which everyone's judgment is equal to everyone else's? That's not a church, it's chaos. Common sense dictates that you keep the fox out of the chicken coop. ”
- John Cardinal O’Connor- Copy
- 1.9K
“ As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
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“ The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. ”
- Toni Morrison- Copy
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“ There is a long-standing tradition in the mainstream press of middle-of-the-road journalism that is objective and fair. I would hate to see that fall victim to a panic about the Fox effect. ”
- Andrew Heyward- Copy
- 177
“ Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court. ”
- William Wycherley- Copy
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“ The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps. ”
- Norman Tebbit- Copy
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“ Unfortunately, America wasn't paying attention when he was giving his stump speech. ”
- Al Franken- Copy
- 733
“ Who so beset him round / With dismal stories, / Do but themselves confound; / His strength the more is. ”
- John Bunyan- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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