Proscribing Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases |
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Compiled by:
| Icon Group International, Inc. Staff, |
ISBN: | 978-0-546-72006-8 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2008 |
Publisher: | Icon Group International, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $28.95 |
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Familiar Quotations Proscribing ndash; BanIt's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've finished this, I shall recommend they ban it.ndash;Tony HancockProscribing ndash; BanishmentThe young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did--which was to hide.ndash;James BaldwinProscribing ndash; ExclusionThe essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.ndash;Henry...
More DescriptionFamiliar Quotations Proscribing ndash; BanIt's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've finished this, I shall recommend they ban it.ndash;Tony HancockProscribing ndash; BanishmentThe young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did--which was to hide.ndash;James BaldwinProscribing ndash; ExclusionThe essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.ndash;Henry JacobsenThe Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.ndash;A. W. TozerProscribing ndash; ExileI know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.ndash;AeschylusTo live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile'ndash;Albert CamusOnly solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.ndash;Willa Sibert CatherKeep before your eyes from day to day death and exile and all things that seem terrible, but death most of all, and then you will never set your thoughts on what is low and will never desire anything beyond measure.ndash;EpictetusNo exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.ndash;Marcel ProustWhere there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.ndash;Lord Samuel