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Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.

George du Maurier
fancy space littles

Whatever amuses, serves to kill time, to lull the faculties, and to banish reflection. Whatever entertains, usually awakens the understanding or gratifies the fancy. Whatever diverts, is lively in its nature, and sometimes tumultuous in its effects.

George Crabbe
fancy understanding reflection
I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren'... by Friedrich Nietzsche

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

Friedrich Nietzsche
despise superficial fancy

If you go through the list of things that are not possible you're left with a very finite amount of possibilities. The fancy name for this is constraint theory. It's a nonquantitative model, but it's a field of mathematics.

George Friedman
fancy fields names

Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed.

George Harrison
fancy car people

If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.

George Herbert
fancy toys play

If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned.

George Eliot
fancy lessons clever

People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.

Geraldine Jewsbury
fancy mistake people

Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility.

George Santayana
fancy passion thinking
People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not a... by Gerry Mulligan

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy

Gerry Mulligan
fancy levels people
I've never fancied myself as a pole dancer. by Glenn Roeder

I've never fancied myself as a pole dancer.

Glenn Roeder
dancer fancy

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

George Bernard Shaw
fancy politician kings
I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I... by Glenn Beck

I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.

Glenn Beck
fancy political hate
All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins? by George Bernard Shaw

All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

George Bernard Shaw
fancy skins dresses

When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.

Grace Llewellyn
fancy growing-up term

It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
fancy soul laughing

Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.

H. P. Blavatsky
fancy children religion
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act,... by Hannah More

When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.

Hannah More
martyr fancy bears
Is love a fancy, or a feeling? by Hartley Coleridge

Is love a fancy, or a feeling?

Hartley Coleridge
fancy feelings
I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors. by Helena Bonham Carter

I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.

Helena Bonham Carter
typecasting fancy directors
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