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«A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.»
«I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.»
«A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.»
Author: Joseph Roux | About: Quotations | Keywords: diamond, pebble, quotation
«Inside Out was the first band I ever fronted. I channeled all my pain through that band. It was about completely detaching ourselves from society to see ourselves as...as spirits, and not bowing down to a system that sees you as just another pebble on a beach. But what Inside Out went through were a ton of lineup changes.»
«I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.»
«I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with»
«Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.»
«Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.»
Author: Confucius | About: Law and lawyers | Keywords: diamond, flaw, pebble, pebbled
«I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another client; successful polygamy depends upon pretending to each spouse that she is the only pebble on your beach.»
«How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh»

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