Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: October 25, 1800 - December 28, 1859

Topics

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Trump is good for comedy but bad for the world.

Maz Jobrani

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By serializing two novels in 'Analog,' the world's No. 1, best-selling science fiction magazine, I've had 200,000 words of fiction and three cover stories in that magazine. Quite an enviable record.

Robert J. Sawyer

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Bolshevism may be Marxian in theory, but it is Hulagoesque in practice. It may be of European descent, but it is Oriental in tradition. Oriental in mood. Oriental in temperament.

Ameen Rihani

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Planned Parenthood has amassed a Third Reich-style death count completely legally and while pocketing half a billion dollars a year to do so.

Steve Bannon

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You cannot expect to make an action movie without getting bruises.

Stephanie Sigman

ActionYouWithoutExpectCannot

I would be daft to say I wouldn't like to try Hollywood. But my main dream is to keep working. Keep loving what I am doing.

Siobhan Finneran

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When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.

Roger Federer

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I love comedy, but I did always consider myself a dramatic comedian.

Molly Shannon

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No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

Josh Billings

UsOurselvesDisgrace

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

Donald Barthelme

StrongFictionHereFactFewStrain

I think when Fox News goes to the Megyn Kellys, the Bret Baiers, and people who don't have much experience who haven't covered campaigns, the result is sometimes you have these inane questions that come out and, frankly, waste everybody's time.

David Shuster

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More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.

Craig Brown

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