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Quotes about Quick


I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolver…and since he is so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and give it to him.

Jack Handey

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Jeremy Collier

'Tis immortality to die aspiring, As if a man were taken quick to heaven.

George Chapman

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else

Jinx Milea

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

George Eliot

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.

Zig Flavia

Only a newspaper! Quick read, quick lost, Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, Star-eyed intelligence?

Mary Clemmer (Mary Clemmer Ames)

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres. [Lat., Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.

Pierre de Beaumarchais

The lazy man gets round the sun as quickly as the busy one.

R.t. Wombat

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Tennessee Williams

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Friedrich Nietszche

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.

Leo Voltaire

Love is like quick sand, if u fall in it then there is no way out.

Kazi Shams

Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.

Hannah More

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Pierre De Beaumarchais

The most expensive wedding usually ends with the quickest divorce.

Jim Anonymous

The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed. You must not dare for shame to talk of mercy; For your own reasons turn into your bosoms As dogs upon their masters, worrying you.

William Shakespeare

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

Georges Pompidou

Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.

Charles Caleb Colton

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

Miguel De Cervantes

"Brooks of Sheffield": "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the gentleman, laughing. I looked up quickly, being curious to know. "Only Brooks of Sheffield," said Mr. Murdstone. I was glad to find it was only Brooks of Sheffield; for at first I really thought that it was I.

Charles Dickens

They exchanged the quick, brilliant smile of women who dislike each other on sight.

Marshall Pugh

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. [James 1:19-20].

Charlotte Bible

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