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  • I am made all things to all men, that I might byall means save some.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Corinthians 9:22.

  • Asunknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Corinthians 6:9^10.

  • Lienot oneto another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Colossians 3:9^11.

  • I would that you were all to me, You that are just so much, no more.

    - Robert Browning
      Men and Women,'Two in the Campagna'.

  • Tous pour un, un pour tous. All for one, one for all.

    -Duncan
      Les Trois Mousquetaires, ch.9.

  •    Or say that the end precedes the beginning, And the end and the beginning were always there before the beginning and after the end. And all is always now.

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
      Four Quartets,'Burnt Norton', pt.5.

  •    All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

    - RalphWaldo Emerson
      'Each and  All', l.11^12.

  • That's all folks!

    - Friz born Isadore Freleng Freleng
    Porky Pig's stammered trademark, sign-off line for Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes.

  • The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States.Eachsuburbanwifestruggledwith it alone. Asshe made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at nightshe was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question'Is this all?'

    - Betty (Elizabeth) Naomi ne  e  Goldstein Friedan
      The Feminine Mystique, ch.1,'The Problem that has No Name'.

  • America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

    - Allen Ginsberg
      Howl and Other Poems,'America'.

  • Goodbye to All That. 367

    - Robert von Ranke Graves
       Title of autobiography.

  •    All the way with LBJ.

    - Harold Edward Holt
      Speech, Washington DC,  Jun.

  • Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

    -Jerome K(lapka) Jerome
      Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow,'On Being in Love'.

  •    It istruethat sinisthe cause of all thispain; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.

    -Julian of Norwich known as LadyJulian
    ^c.1393  Revelations of Divine Love, ch.27.

  • Transeunt omnia, et tu cum eis pariter. All things perish, and you along with them.

    - StThomas a' Kempis
    c.1413  De Imitatione Christi, bk.2, ch.1, section 4.

  • If it is art it is not for all, and if it is for all it is not art.

    - Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg
    Quoted in Ian Crofton and Donald Fraser A Dictionary of Musical Quotations (1985).

  • I asked you to be the thunder and lightning of Desert Storm.You were all of that and more.

    - H Norman Schwarzkopf
      Message to US units on the cease-fire that ended the Gulf War.

  • Just seehow well shegoverns! She is onlya woman, only the mistress of half an island, and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, byall!

    -SixtusV originally Felice Peretti
      Of Elizabeth I. Quoted in L von Pastor The History of the Popes (edited by Kerr R F,1932), vol.22, p.34.

  • And all for love, and nothing for reward.

    - Edmund Spenser
      The Faerie Queen, bk.2, canto 8 stanza 2.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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