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| Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Bible, St.
John 8:32 |
Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare;
To-morrow's Silence, Triumph,
or Despair:
Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why:
Drink!
for you know not why you go, nor where. LXXIV, Rubaiyat of Omar
Khayyam (5th Ed.) |
Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose!
That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close!
The Nightingale that in the
branches sang,
Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
XCVI,
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (5th Ed.) |
Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some
do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does
it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
Oscar Wilde |
| Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy.
John Milton |
| Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield.
Aesop [The Man
and His Two Wives] |
| Yield to Temptation...it may not pass your way again.
Lazarus Long |
| You always find what you're looking for in the last place you look. |
You and I are exceptions to the laws of nature; you have
risen by your
gravity, and I have sunk by my levity. Sydney Smith |
| You are a wish to be here wishing yourself.
Philip Whalen |
| You are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made. |
| You are never so easily fooled as when you are trying to fool someone
else. Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld |
| You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.
Neils Bohr to
Einstein (during a debate on Quantum Mechanics) |
| You are not treating a girl right unless you ruin her digestion.
Tom
Masson |
| You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. |
| You are only young once, then you need another reason to act foolish. |
| You are the only authority on what is best for you.
Hugh Prather |
| You are what you are when no one is looking.
Robert C. Edwards |
| You are young only once, but you have a lifetime to be immature. |
| You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot do by force.
Publilius
Syrus |
| You can always judge a man by what he eats, and therefore a country in
which there is no free lunch is no longer a free country.
Arthur Baer |
| You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your
wife? Benjamin Franklin |
| You can do more with a kind word and a gun than you can with only a
kind word. |
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without
it. Samuel Butler |
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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people
some of the time, but you can make a fool of yourself anytime. |
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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James
Thurber |
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You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too
trusting. |
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You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think.
Elbert
Hubbard |
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You can never do just one thing.
Hardin |
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You can never trust a woman; she may be true to you.
Douglas Ainslie |
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You can stroke people with words.
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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You can take a boy out of the country but you can't take the country
out of the boy. Arthur Baer |
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You can't carve your way to success without cutting remarks. |
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You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up.
Richard
Nixon [1952] |
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You can't drive straight on a twisted road.
Russian proverb |
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You can't exactly say to a judge: "Buzz off."
Louis Blom-Cooper QC |
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You can't hatch chickens from fried eggs.
Pennsylvania Dutch proverb |
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You can't have everything. Where would you put it? |
| You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. Booker T.
Washington |
| You can't pick a mushroom without bowing. Russian proverb |
| You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd. |
| You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of
equality. Woodrow Wilson |
| You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it. Ninette de
Valois |
| You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. Henry David Thoreau |
| You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without
them. Joseph H. Choate |
| You cannot put the same shoe on every foot. Publilius Syrus |
| You don't have to rehearse to be yourself. |
| You fight dandelions all week end, and late Monday afternoon there they
are, pert as all get out, in full and gorgeous bloom, pretty as can be,
thriving as only dandelions can in the face of adversity. Hal Borland |
| You know how it is in an election year. They pick a president and then
for four years they pick on him. Adlai Stevenson |
| You know who critics are? - the men who have failed in literature and
art. Benjamin Disraeli |
| You live and you learn - or you don't live long. |
| You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in
spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the
faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. Walker Percy |
| You look wise, pray correct that error. Charles Lamb |
| You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I
think it is horrible because I could commit it. Gilbert K. Chesterton |
| You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal - no one will see
it. But when a button is missing - everyone sees that. Voltaire
(Francois Marie Arouet) |
| You never gain something but that you lose something. Henry David
Thoreau |
| You never get a hangover from other people's vodka. Russian proverb |
| You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than
enough. William Blake |
| You never know what you can do without until you try. Franklin P.
Adams |
| You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. John
Barrymore |
| You only live once but, if you live right, once is enough. |
| You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument. Samuel
Johnson |
| You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for
freedom and liberty. Henrick Ibson |
| You won't skid if you stay in a rut. Frank M. ("Kin") Hubbard |
| You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. Walt
Schmidt |
| You're never a failure until you quit. |
| You're never a loser until you quit trying. Mike Ditka |
| Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk. Dutch proverb |
| Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. Henry
Adams |
| Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are
fools. George Chapman |
| Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be
faithless, and cannot. Oscar Wilde |
| Your education begins where what is called your education is over. |
| Your fate is but the common lot of all. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| Your future is all ahead of you! |
| Your ignorance cramps my conversation. Anthony Hope |
| Your karma just ran over my dogma. |
| Your mind needs an uplift as well as your bust. Christopher Morley |
| Your worst enemy becomes your best friend, once he's
underground. Euripides |
| Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with
it. Rudyard Kipling |
| Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret. Benjamin
Disraeli |
| Youth is a wonderful thing; what a crime to waste it on
children. George Bernard Shaw |
| Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice
it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau |