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Comedy Writer Inspirational Quotes (429)

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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
Aristophanes
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Ones oldest friend is the best.
Plautus
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Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
Plautus
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Old age is second childhood.
Aristophanes
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Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.
Plautus
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It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.
Terence
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Aristophanes
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I suspect that hunger was my mother.
Plautus
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In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
Plautus
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My experience as a Jewish American has often been as a spectator of one-sided conversations, or more like monologues, about Israel, Jewish History, Jewish identity, etc. Although there are profound divisions amongst Jews on all of these topics there are not many opportunities for deep and thoughtful dialogue about them.
Jill Soloway
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In the little travel I've done to other countries, the Jews there embraced me saying, Come to our house, come and have Shabbat with us. Jews in the Diaspora. I didn't imagine an Israeli traveling to the U.S. would feel this intensity of a forced relationship.
Jill Soloway
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Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
Alcaeus
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The gods sell to us all the goods which they give us.
Epicharmus of Kos
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Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
Plautus
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Nothing is more useful than silence.
Menander
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Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend. [Lat., Tardo amico nihil est quidquam iniquius.]
Plautus
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Where there are friends there is wealth.
Plautus
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And so it happens oft in many instances more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended. [Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis, Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]
Plautus
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In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.
Terence
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Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.
Plautus
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The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
Plautus
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Practice yourself what you preach.
Plautus
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When you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire.
Plautus
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It is the understanding that sees and hears it is the understanding that improves everything, that orders everything, and that acts, rules, and reigns.
Epicharmus of Kos
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