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| Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings --as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1819-1892, American Poet |
| Read as you taste fruit or savour wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. | Holbrook Jackson | |
| Read as you taste fruit or savour wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. | Holbrook Jackson | |
| There is but one way left to save a classic: to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation. | Jose Ortega Y Gasset | 1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher |
| Everything in this book may be wrong. [The Savior's Manual] | Richard Bach | 1936-, American Author |
| Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. | Robert Byrne | |
| All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books. | Voltaire | 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer |
| The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savouring | Warren Chappell | |
| Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners. | Edmund Burke | 1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman |
| I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humour and a sense of proportion. | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1882-1945, Thirty-second President of the USA |
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| To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power. | Norman Thomas | 1884-1968, American Socialist Leader |
| This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. | Lord Byron | 1788-1824, British Poet |
| We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| We all knew there was just one way to improve our odds for survival: train, train, train. Sometimes, if your training is properly intense it will kill you. More often -- much, much more often -- it will save your life. | Richard Marcinko | American Business Author |
| Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves. | Winston Churchill | 1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| Utility is our national shibboleth: the saviour of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics. | Edward Dahlberg | 1900-1977, American Author, Critic |
| For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. | George Ade | 1866-1944, American Humorist, Playwright |
| Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. | John Wesley | 1703-1791, British Preacher, Founder of Methodism |
| The best way to save money is not to lose it. | Les Williams | |
| Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany. | Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe | |
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| The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| Inflation is the crabgrass in your SAVINGS. | Robert Orben | 1927-, American Editor, Writer, Humorist |
| Nowadays, a penny saved is ridiculous! | Shelby Friedman | |
| The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind. | Thornton T. Munger | American Scientist |
| Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope. | William Penn | 1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania |
| That is the saving grace of humour, if you fail no one is laughing at you. | A. Whitney Brown | |
| The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparallelled catastrophe. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre. | Aldous Huxley | 1894-1963, British Author |
| Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. | Alice Walker | 1944-, American Author, Critic |
| Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine, jiggling your knees blankly in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain. | Allen Ginsberg | 1926-, American Poet |
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| Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Influence is like a SAVINGS account. The less you use it, the more you've got. | Andrew Young | 1932-, Civil Rights Activist, Protestant Minister, Public Official |
| Do not save your loving speeches for your friends till they are dead. Do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead. | Anna Cummins | |
| Youth should be a SAVINGS bank. | Anne Sophie Swetchine | 1782-1857, Russian Author |
| Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. | Anthony Robbins | 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant |
| What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. | Antoine De Saint-Exupery | 1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer |
| Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart. | Antoine De Saint-Exupery | 1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer |
| A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee. | Arnold H. Glasgow | |
| Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
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| The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilized men. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country. | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God., not as a result of works, that no one should boast. [Ephesians 2:6, 7] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, ''Because He did, I can forgive you.'' | Billy Graham | 1918-, American Evangelist |
| Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people. | Bob Dylan | 1941-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter |
| The civilized savage is the worst of all savages. | C. J. Weber | |
| Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their ''evil'' look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savours the perverse or reflects upon it. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect. | Charles A. Stoddard | |
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