General Sayings

189 sayings found from the Modern era from 189 authors

I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ’cause you’ll play against you.

— Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) 1990
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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

— Agatha Christie 1926
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

— Arthur Conan Doyle 1891
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How can we expect a man to be as good as his word when he has no good word in him?

— Alexandre Dumas 1844-1846
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I’ve been trying for some time to make people realize that America is not an innocent country.

— James Baldwin 1960s
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Dat's what makes a man and a woman. You can't have one without the other.

— Zora Neale Hurston 1937
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The butterfly is a dancing flower. The flower a tethered butterfly.

— Federico Garcia Lorca Unknown
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We are born astride of a grave, and a hellish light it is.

— Samuel Beckett 1953
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The fog is so thick that you can't see the end of your nose. It's really too much! I'm completely disheartened.

— Claude Monet 1891
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Bad taste is a kind of mental gluttony. We shall now dine.

— Salvador Dali 1960s
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I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.

— Frida Kahlo 1940
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I’ve learned that you can get away with a lot if you’re not a total jerk.

— Andy Warhol Uncertain
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We were all on this ship in the '60s, our little yellow submarine.

— John Lennon 1980
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I ain't no saint, but I've tried never to hurt anybody.

— Elvis Presley Approx. 1970s
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There are some things that if you have to ask, you'll never know.

— Louis Armstrong 1955
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If you're not nervous, you're not paying attention.

— Miles Davis unknown
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You have to be a freak to be a good rock guitarist.

— Jimi Hendrix 1967
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Me say, 'You don't need no license to drive a car and to carry a gun, but you need a license to play a guitar.'

— Bob Marley 1979
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A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

— Frank Sinatra 1960s
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I never had a lesson in my life. I never learned to read music. I can't read music. I play by ear, and I sing by ear.

— Billie Holiday 1950s
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