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«Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.»
«Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched. Try whether»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Smile,
Society
| Keywords:
distress, expects, higher degree, high society, one-sided, pinched, pinches, prosper, to a higher degree, to the highest degree
«The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that fits all cases»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
cases, fits, in one case, one-person, pinched, pinches, pinching, recipe, recipes, shoe
«The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
followers, Good Time, heroic, human blood, pinch, pinched, pinches, pinching, safety, sentiments, sweat, toil
«For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
commonness, disdainful, liable, pinched, protuberant, self-confident, solicitation, transient, unfolding
«A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
in all probability, pinch, pinched, pinches, pinching, pound, probability
«Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| Keywords:
functions, pinched, pinches, pinching, system of government, the system
«A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can tell where it pinches me.»
«A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.»
«The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
desired, hurts, lover, pinch, pinched, pinches, pinching, stroke, stroked, The Strokes
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