(1132 quotes found)
“My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.”
Groucho Marx
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
William Arthur Ward
“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.”
Chinua Achebe
“Christianity is one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread.”
D. T. Niles
“The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.”
Voltaire
“If someone tells you he is going to make "a realistic decision", you immediately understand that he is going to do something bad.”
Mary McCarthy
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
Richard Buckminster Fuller
“A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.”
Ogden Nash
“I'm a survivor, at least that's what everyone tells me.”
Courtney Love
“One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.”
Cesare Pavese
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