Quotations About / On: ALONE

  • 31.
    This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
    (David Hume (1711-1776), Scottish philosopher, historian, embassy secretary. A Treatise of Human Nature, pp. 491-492, ed. Selby-Bigge (1740).)
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  • 32.
    Don't drink alone, Scarlett. People always find out and it ruins your reputation.
    (Sidney Howard (1891-1939), U.S. screenwriter. Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), Gone With The Wind, after the funeral for Scarlett's (Vivien Leigh) second husband (Carroll Nye) (1939).)
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  • 33.
    For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.
    (Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), U.S. president. "A Summary View of the Rights of British America..." (1774). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 1, p. 122, ed. Julian P. Boyd, et al. (1950).)
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  • 34.
    We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
    (Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian author, playwright. Letter, December 23, 1888, to his editor and friend, A.S. Suvorin. Complete Works and Letters in Thirty Volumes, Letters, vol. 3, p. 99, "Nauka" (1976).)
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  • 35.
    We lunched and dined in crowded restaurants. We were always alone.
    (Muriel Box (b. 1905), British screenwriter, and Sydney Box (1907-1983), British screenwriter. Franceska (Ann Todd), The Seventh Veil, speaking of her relationship with Nicholas (1945).)
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  • 36.
    The creepy thing about battle is you always feel alone.
    (Samuel Fuller, U.S. screenwriter. Zab (Robert Carradine), The Big Red One (1980).)
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  • 37.
    On mourra seul. We shall die alone.
    (Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French scientist, mathematician. Pensées, iii. 211, ed. L. Brunschvieg, 5th edition (1909).)
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  • 38.
    Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection, New York (1989).)
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  • 39.
    Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Tenth Selection, New York (1992).)
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  • 40.
    There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
    (Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Anglo-Irish novelist. The House in Paris, pt. 1, ch. 2 (1935).)
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