Quote by Adlai Stevenson
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. – Adlai Stevenson

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Do not… regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo? – Adlai Stevenson

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I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. – Adlai Stevenson

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Oh, the things that go through my mind that I never say. Oh, the things I say that never go through my mind. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. – Ben Jonson

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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact—from calling on us to look through a heap of millet-seed in order to be sure that there is no pearl in it. – George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such, 1879

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Lucy put out her hand as if to ward his words away… – Florence Bone (1875–1971), The Morning of To‑Day, 1907

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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same). – David Mamet

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We should believe in the strength and vitality of the values which constitute the E.U. and which neighbouring states can believe in and aspire to join. – Donald Tusk

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He who does not have common sense at age thirty will never have it. – Proverb

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