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A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.

Quote by Charles Babbage about opinion, tools, power

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

Quote by Douglas Adams about reality

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Quote by Winston Churchill about advice, day

I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about literature, parents, character, children, real estate

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Quote by Arthur Conan Doyle about pleasure, art, magic, man

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about death, state, human imperfections, being

Type: Poet Quotes Category: Scottish Poet Quotes Year of Birth: 1732 Year of Death: 1769 Nationality: Scottish Find on Amazon: William Falconer Related Authors: Norman MacCaig Ian Hamilton Finlay Alexander Smith...

Quote by William Falconer about nation, poets, death

A ship is said to be on the starboard or larboard tack, when she is close-hauled, with the wind upon the starboard or larboard side; and in this sense the distance which the sails in that position is considered as the length of the tack; although...

Quote by William Falconer about common sense, sense

The ADMIRAL, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.

Quote by William Falconer about ability, destiny, being

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

Quote by Juvenal about virtue

Exchange ideas frequently.

Quote by James Cash Penney about idea

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Quote by Dale Carnegie about enthusiasm, quality, common sense, sense

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.

Quote by James Thomson about life, dream, night, day

As she frequently remarked when she made any such mistake, it would be all the same a hundred years hence.

Quote by Charles Dickens about woman, mistake

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely...

Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt about age, olderness, youth, life