Quotes about pretense, page 3
He: prehensile, vile.
She: pretense aisle. Guile trial lasts
while lust's lost last smile.
haiku by Jonathan Robin (25 May 2008)
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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
quote by Tennessee Williams
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You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
quote by Emmet Fox
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Time Eyes
time eyes
blue morning reality
walking instant
remembered
then confusing
dew on lilacs
loaded still
barefoot pretense
of aged innocence
poem by Peter S. Quinn
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time eyes (From,134 Picture Poems)
time eyes
blue morning reality
walking instant
remembered
then confusing
dew on lilacs
loaded still
barefoot pretense
of aged innocence
poem by Peter S. Quinn
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Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.
quote by Chris Ware
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I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
quote by Thomas Jefferson
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
quote by Washington Irving
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It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
quote by Friedrich August von Hayek
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For Bianca
Her name be Purity
Eyes sing of Innocence
And full of inner Beauty
Devoid of all pretense
No trace of hatred there
No doubts, nor even fear
Her very soul laid bare
God's image is all here!
poem by Cynthia Buhain-Baello
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