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«A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Humor
| Keywords:
every, humor, humored, humors, jolt, jolted, like, on the road, pebble, pebbled, person, road, sense, sensed, sense an, sense of humor, sensing, springs, spring up, take the road, wagon, wagons, without humor, with humor
«I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
| About:
Children,
Play
| Keywords:
divert, diverting, diverts, now and then, pebble, prettier, sea shore, shell, shore, smoother, undiscovered
«A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.»
«Inside Out was the first band I ever fronted. I channeled all my pain through that band. It was about completely detaching ourselves from society to see ourselves as...as spirits, and not bowing down to a system that sees you as just another pebble on a beach. But what Inside Out went through were a ton of lineup changes.»
«I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.»
Author: Isaac Newton
(Mathematician, Physicist)
| Keywords:
diverting, pebble, prettier, seashore, shell, smoother
«I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
bright, child, content, every now and then, finding, now and then, pebble, pebbled, seem, shores, vast, Vaster, vastest, wandering, wanderings
«Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.»
«Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.»
«I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.»
Author: David Ogilvy
| About:
Clients and customers,
Sales
| Keywords:
attend, beach, client, convention, engagement, engagements, pebble, polygamy, previous, spouse
«How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
cockroach, Cockroaches, pebble, shoe, spaghetti, unbearable
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