“ Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. ”
- Elizabeth Kubler Ross- Copy
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“ Though men determine, the gods do dispose: and oft times many things fall out between the cup and the lip. ”
- Robert Greene- Copy
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“ The proper, wise balancingof one's whole life may depend upon thefeasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour. ”
- Arnold Bennett- Copy
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“ There was a king of Thule, Was faithful till the grave, To whom his mistress dying, A golden goblet gave. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't. - Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? ”
- Jean Kerr- Copy
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“ There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so… ”
- Terry Pratchett- Copy
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“ At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote. ”
- Emo Phillips- Copy
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“ The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel. ”
- Marge Piercy- Copy
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“ Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. ”
- Robert Hall- Copy
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“ I'm a confirmed negaholic. I don't just see a glass that's half full and call it half-empty; I see a glass that's completely full and worry that someone's going to tip it over. ”
- Peter McWilliams- Copy
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“ LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man's disillusion given. The King of Manchuria had a magic looking-glass, whereon whoso looked saw, not his own image, but only that of the king. A certain courtier who had long enjoyed the king's favor and was thereby enriched beyond any other subject of the realm, said to the king: "Give me, I pray, thy wonderful mirror, so that when absent out of thine august presence I may yet do homage before thy visible shadow, prostrating myself night and morning in the glory of thy benign countenance, as which nothing has so divine splendor, O Noonday Sun of the Universe!" Please with the speech, the king commanded that the mirror be conveyed to the courtier's palace; but after, having gone thither without apprisal, he found it in an apartment where was naught but idle lumber… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes,Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,And seeing that it was a soft October night,Curled once about the house, and fell asleep. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
- 3.6K
“ One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight… ”
- Achaan Chah Subato- Copy
- 2K
“ I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
- 2.2K
“ A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. ”
- Fred Allen- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass. ”
- Nicolas Boileau- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass and some cracked ice. ”
- John Barrymore- Copy
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