Thomas Overbury Quotes

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

Thomas Overbury

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: 1581 - 1613

Topics

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Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.

Jim Hightower

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Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows.

Jennifer Aniston

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I'm very enthusiastic about the Academy Awards because if there were no Oscars, we wouldn't have as many good movies as we do have.

Robert Osborne

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Frankly, health care and politics are 'inextricably intertwined.'

Angela Braly

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When monetary policy destroys the currency, it always destroys the middle class.

Ron Paul

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I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.

Roland Joffe

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I think fundamentally, I had to make a decision really on whether this was a film about the past or the present. And 'The Act Of Killing' is a film about the present.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.

Jorge Luis Borges

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My mother taught Shakespeare and used to act.

Derek Walcott

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I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was.

Clifton Daniel

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Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

Bob Feller

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People think I'm strong as hard as I look. But I've a very sensitive side and need to be loved by everyone.

Brigitte Nielsen

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