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Of all the different ways we reassure ourselves, the least comforting is this: it's already too late.

– John KoenigRate it:

Of all the Gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of Heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

– AeschylusRate it:

Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

– Samuel JohnsonRate it:

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

– Madame ChiangRate it:

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

– Henry Ward BeecherRate it:

Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

– Daniel J. BoorstinRate it:

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

– Johann Christoph Friedrich von SchillerRate it:

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

– Herman MelvilleRate it:

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

– Henry ClayRate it:

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

– John RuskinRate it:

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

– Marilyn FergusonRate it:

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

– Remy de GourmontRate it:

Of all the significant things I noted in the world, one significantly stood out, the insignificance of man.

– Goa KerleRate it:

Of all the species that god created, man is the most fragile and certainly uncertain and unreliable, believe me!

– Ramana PemmarajuRate it:

Of all the species that god created, man is the most fragile and certainly uncertain!

– Ramana PemmarajuRate it:

Of all the species that god created, man remains the most fragile and certainly uncertain, thanks to his histrionic nature!

– Ramana PemmarajuRate it:

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence.

– John Foster DullesRate it:

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

– EpicurusRate it:

Of all the thoughts that hover in your mind, the one you deliberately choose and act upon - changes your LIFE!

– Ramana PemmarajuRate it:

Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has travelled is the worst.

– Kin HubbardRate it:

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

– AristotleRate it:

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

– Walter BenjaminRate it:

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

– Anatole FranceRate it:

Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing Embraceable You in spats.

– Woody AllenRate it:

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