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"Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house." Charles Dickens 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"'Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer... If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!'" Charles Dickens 4.0909 average rating Rate this Quote
"Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks." Charles Dickens 4.8571 average rating Rate this Quote
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way." Charles Dickens 4.7232 average rating Rate this Quote
"Somehow he [Tim] gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see." Charles Dickens 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The American male at the peak of his physical powers and appetites, driving 160 big white horses across the scenes of an increasingly open society, with weekend money in his pocket and with little prior exposure to trouble and tragedy, personifies "an accident going to happen." John Sloan Dickey 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine." Emily Elizabeth Dickinson 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm." Denis Diderot 3.6000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth." Denis Diderot 3.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by." Annie Dillard 2.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight." Phyllis 2.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine." Isak Dinesen 3.4000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Time is the image of eternity." Laertius Diogenes 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions;... that laws were like cobwebs, --for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off." Laertius Diogenes Rate this Quote
"Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards -- the things we live by and teach our children -- are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings." Walt(er) Elias Disney 4.7143 average rating Rate this Quote
"All of our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." Walt(er) Elias Disney 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke." Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli 4.7000 average rating Rate this Quote
"We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity." Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations." Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli Rate this Quote
"Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret." Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli 4.4211 average rating Rate this Quote
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