Food & Drink Sayings

144 sayings found from the Modern era from 144 authors

Capitalism is the greatest thing that ever happened to mankind.

— Sam Walton 1980s
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Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

— Ray Kroc 1977
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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

— William Randolph Hearst early 1900s
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The greatest joy one can have is to be oneself.

— Hedy Lamarr 1970s
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If you ever dream of beating me, you'd better wake up and apologize.

— Muhammad Ali 1970s
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The greatest weapon is to be invisible.

— Bruce Lee 1973
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The greatest joy in the world is to be able to make a difference.

— Jackie Robinson 1960s
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The only way to beat the competition is to be better than them.

— Jesse Owens 1970s
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I always wanted to be like my father. He was a great football player.

— Pele 2010
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The craving for sympathy from others is a great weakness, for it makes us dependent upon them.

— Florence Nightingale Undated, likely early career
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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to anything.

— Albert Schweitzer Undated
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Never allow a problem to be solved by those who created it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt Unknown
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The greatest enemy of art is good taste.

— Stanley Kubrick Unknown
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My father used to beat me with a hose. And he'd say, 'This is for your own good!' I said, 'No, it's not! It's for your pleasure!'

— Richard Pryor 1970s
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The only thing that's certain is death and taxes. And me, being funny.

— Lenny Bruce 1960s
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The theory of relativity is a mass of errors and deceptive ideas violently opposed to the teachings of the great men of science of the past and even to common sense.

— Nikola Tesla 1930s (approximate)
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The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand... Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat.

— Sun Yat-sen 1924
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I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to water, whilst their heads become giddy and incapable of thinking as the sweat of fear paralyzes them.

— Shaka Zulu Approx. early 19th Century
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For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.

— Georg Simmel Unknown
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The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'real' life. The truth is, of course, that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life.

— C.S. Lewis 1943
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