Quotations About / On: LEAVE

  • 41.
    When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.
    (Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), Soviet premier. Quoted in Observer (London, May 28, 1961). Advice to British businessmen.)
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  • 42.
    Smooth white skin invites something that will leave a trace, a kiss or a slap.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection, New York (1991).)
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  • 43.
    I meddled in things that man must leave alone.
    (R.C. Sherriff (1896-1975), British screenwriter. James Whale. Jack Griffin (Claude Rains), The Invisible Man, as he lies dying (1933). Full name Robert Cedric Sherriff.)
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  • 44.
    When I go out, I hope to leave the worst of myself at home.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Tenth Selection, New York (1992).)
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  • 45.
    Always leave room for the reader to supply meanings.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993).)
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  • 46.
    An aphorism
    should be
    like a burr:
    sting,
    ...
    and leave
    a little soreness....
    (Irving Layton (b. 1912), Canadian poet. "Aphs," The Whole Bloody Bird (1969).)
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  • 47.
    The generations of men run on in the tide of time,
    But leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever & ever.
    (William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, painter, engraver. repr. In Complete Writings, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (1957). Milton, plate 22.)
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  • 48.
    I leave before being left. I decide.
    (Brigitte Bardot (b. 1933), French actor. Quoted in Newsweek (New York, March 5, 1973).)
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  • 49.
    When you have our roses,
    You barely leave our thorns to prick ourselves,
    And mock us with our bareness.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Diana, in All's Well That Ends Well, act 4, sc. 2, l. 18-20. Resisting Bertram's attempt to seduce her.)
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  • 50.
    Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection, New York (1987).)
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