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Comedy Writer Inspirational Quotes (429)

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Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.
Menander
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
Aristophanes
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You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.
Terence
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Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Thomas Moore
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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.
Terence
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Man's fortune is usually changed at once life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier varia vita est.]
Plautus
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If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
Plautus
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For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.
Plautus
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It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
Plautus
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A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
Plautus
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
Aristophanes
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I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
Plautus
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We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
Plautus
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The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.
Thomas Moore
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Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
Plautus
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
Thomas Moore
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
Aristophanes
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Old age is but a second childhood.
Aristophanes
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And war is wonderful, isn't it? For it's war, isn't it, that the Americans have been preparing for and are preparing for this way step by step. In order to defend this senseless manufacture from all competition that could not fail to arise on all sides.
Antonin Artaud
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In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men. [Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]
Plautus
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The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.
Epicharmus of Kos
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In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life.
Thomas Moore
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Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.
Antonin Artaud
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If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
Plautus
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