Robert E. Lee Quotes

If you have any fault to find with anyone, tell him, not others, of what you complain; there is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

Robert E. Lee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 19, 1807 - October 12, 1870

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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word 'natural' to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics. The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.

John Burroughs

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They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.

John Newcombe

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You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.

John Lasseter

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I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

Johnny Carson

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The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

Mary Browne

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Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost - which stretches for thousands of miles across Alaska, Canada, and Siberia.

Michael Specter

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My view is that Roe v. Wade had no basis in law or fact.

Josh Hawley

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In the head of the moment after losing a game, I lost the control of my emotions and hit the ball with an intention of hitting out of the court. Unfortunately and absolutely unintentionally I hit Mr. Arnaud Gabas, the chair umpire.

Denis Shapovalov

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While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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I love American positivity.

Boy George

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Women's tennis? I think it stinks. They hit the ball back and forth, have a lot of nice volleys, and you can see some pretty legs. But it's night and day compared to men's tennis.

Bobby Riggs

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