Quotations
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Vintage is a poor guide of durability. After all when you buy a second hand car you never leave it to the model you are purchasing.You have to know the mileage as well.
- Ashoka Prasad quotes
Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.
- Dave Barry quotes
Violence does even justice unjustly.
- Thomas Carlyle quotes
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle quotes
Violence is my last option.
- Chuck Norris quotes
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Isaac Asimov quotes
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
- Jim Morrison quotes
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
- Vanessa Mae quotes
Virgin Queen: 'Stick the peanut in the peanut hole? Why? I'd rather eat mine.'
- Queen Elizabeth I quotes
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
- Karl Kraus quotes
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
- Edward Young quotes
Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids:
Her monuments shall last, when Egypt's fall
- Edward Young quotes
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
- John Milton quotes
Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down
- Sir Henry Wotton quotes
Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
- Edgar Watson Howe quotes
Virtue treads paths that end not in the grave
- James Russell Lowell quotes
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
- Honore De Balzac quotes
Virtues are acquired through endeavour, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
- Nagarjuna quotes
Virtues neglected then, adored become,
And graces slighted, blossom on the tomb. (The Borough)
- George Crabbe quotes
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
- Joel A Barker quotes
Visions for those too tired to sleep,
These seeds cast a film over eyes which weep
- Amy Lowell quotes
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight!
Ye unborn ages, crown not on my soul
- Thomas Gray quotes
Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realise the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
- B C Forbes quotes
Vocal adjustments are needed to reduce the bloody velocity of words in the wide spaces of Orstraliah. By contrast... the British enunciate clearly in order to penetrate the humidity and hedges, the moist walls and alleyways.
- Murray Bail quotes
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
- Honore De Balzac quotes
Volleyball is a dandy game and more besides.
- Peter Wardale quotes
Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.
- Gail Parent quotes
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone quotes
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
- Bernard Baruch quotes
Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
- Ambrose Bierce quotes
Voters quickly forget what a man says.
- Richard Nixon quotes
Votes should be weighed not counted.
- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller quotes
Vox populi, vox dei.
The voice of the people is the voice of God. [Letter to Charlemagne]
- Alcuin quotes
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
- James Baldwin quotes
Vulgarity has its uses. Vulgarity often cuts ice which refinement scrapes at vainly.
- Max Beerbohm quotes
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
- Cyril Connolly quotes
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
- Dame Edith Sitwell quotes
Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.
- Czeslaw Milosz quotes
