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Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk. – Plato	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him. – Martin Terman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one. – Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one. – H. L. Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. – Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you were in a room with Kadaffi, Saddam Hussien, and John Sununu, and you only had two bullets, what would you do. Shoot John Sununu twice. – Paul Tsongas	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! – Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), "Through the Looking Glass"	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches? – The Quarterly Review (England), March 1825	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started. – Marcus Garvey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. – Heraclitus, On the Universe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. – Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The lazy man always does twice the work. (El bago siempre pasa double trabajo) – Spanish Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You cannot step twice into the same river. – Heraclitus, In Plato, Cratylus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. – Samuel Goldwyn	added by anonymous 14 years ago
People who keep journals have life twice. – Jessamyn West	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A diplomat must always think twice before he says nothing. – Irish Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If you have no confidence in [yourself] you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started. – Marcus Garvey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If someone betrays you once, it's their fault; if they betray you twice, it's your fault. – Eleanor Roosevelt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. – Heraclitus of Ephesus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We are twice armed if we fight with faith. – Plato	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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