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imitation garlands posterity
Friedrich Schiller Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
imitation
Marcus Tullius Cicero The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
imitation models
Ralph Waldo Emerson Imitation cannot go above its model.
imitation raised contrast
Joshua Reynolds By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the value of their tints, and by which nature has been so happily imitated.
imitation wit poorest
Johann Kaspar Lavater Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.
imitation repetition observation
Denis Waitley We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.
imitation equal predecessors
Baltasar Gracian To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
imitation acquire
Edmund Burke It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.
within
Nizam Idris I would say it's more within my expectations.
within
Michael Mann We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.
witty opposites long
Umberto Eco A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
witty sex good-things
Truman Capote The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.
witty silence ornaments
Virginia Woolf The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
witty humorous heart
Woody Allen Curiosity, that's what kills us. Not muggers or all that bullshit about the ozone layer. It's our own hearts and minds.
witty humorous thinking
Woody Allen What if the worst is true? What if there's no God, and you only go around once, and that's it? Don't you want to be a part of the experience? You know, what the hell? It's not all a drag, and I'm thinking to myself: Geez! I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get and just enjoy it while it lasts. And, you know, after-who knows? Maybe there is something, nobody really knows. I know that maybe is a very slim reed to hang your whole life on, but that's the best we have.
witty falling-in-love children
Woody Allen You will notice that what we are aiming at when we fall in love is a very strange paradox. The paradox consists of the fact that, when we fall in love, we are seeking to re-find all or some of the people to whom we were attached as children. On the other hand, we ask our beloved to correct all of the wrongs that these early parents or siblings inflicted upon us. So that love contains in it the contradiction: The attempt to return to the past and the attempt to undo the past.
witty humorous brain
Woody Allen My brain? That's my second favorite organ.
poorest
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Camiguin, Romblon and Camarines Norte got out of the list of poorest provinces in 2003. With tourism, these provinces can become rich.
poorest shot water
Hale Irwin It was just probably the poorest executed shot of the week. You're going over water one way or another, why not go at the flag?
poorest western
Richard Seivert They are the poorest of the poor in the Western hemisphere.