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An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

Quote by Richard Burton about opinion, actors, woman, man

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces, but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Quote by Richard Burton about friendship, life

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

Quote by Richard Burton about recollection, events, memory, dream, man, life

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child, our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

Quote by Richard Burton about childhood, children, love

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

Quote by Richard Burton about order

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it

Quote by Richard Burton about contentment

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Quote by Richard Burton

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

Quote by Richard Burton about teaching, books, work

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

Quote by Richard Burton about wealth

Travelers are like poets, they are mostly an angry race.

Quote by Richard Burton about poets

You may be as vicious about me as you please, you will only do me justice.

Quote by Richard Burton about rightness, justice, contentment

Half the world is made up from idiots and the other half from people smart enough to take indecent advantage of them.

Quote by Walter Francis Kerr about stupidity, intelligence, world, people

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

Quote by Walt Whitman about people, city, man

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Quote by Walt Whitman about opinion, glory, books

I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Quote by Walt Whitman about death, nothing

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

Quote by Walt Whitman about opinion, charity

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Quote by Walt Whitman about miracle, dark, light, moment

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

Quote by Walt Whitman about liberty

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

Quote by Walt Whitman about wish, flowers, garden

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Quote by Walt Whitman about experience, contentment