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Everyone always says one door closes to let another open. A true genius already has their foot in the next door before the other one shuts. – Terpsichore Lindeman
I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain. – Robert Green Ingersoll
Progress always involves risk you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base. – Frederick Wilcox
Remember, a closed mouth gathers no foot. – Steve Post
When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot. – African Proverb
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. – Bjarne Stroustrup
A closed mouth gathers no foot. – Unknown
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. – Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
"...what’s so important about this law is, it applies to torture wherever it takes place in the world if one is perpetrated by a U.S. citizen, which happened to be the case with this defendant, but also, if somebody else steps foot in the United States who has committed torture crimes in a foreign country, that person can also be prosecuted. " Kendall Coffey on the trial of Chucky Taylor. – Kendall Coffey
A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves, yet just when you open your mouth she stands there demure with that special look in her eyes. A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot. – Alan Marshall Beck
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. – Benjamin Franklin
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place. – Fontenelle
A wise man takes a step at a time; he establishes one foot before he takes up the other: an old place should not be forsaken recklessly. – Sanskrit Proverb
An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. – Plutarch
Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining. – Walter Lippmann
Better the foot slip than the tongue. – French Proverb
Common sense dictates that I can not literally vanish a half million square foot monument. But it is conceivable that I can, for a short period of time, cause that monument to appear invisible to our audience. – Aaron Balcom
Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is to tread on it. – Søren Kierkegaard, Journal, july 6., 1838
Foot is superior to wing, because even when we have wings to fly in the sky, we still need feet so as not to crawl on the ground! – Mehmet Murat ildan
For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. – Spike Milligan, The Goons
Frank knew that no man had ever crossed the desert on foot and lived to tell about it. So, he decided to get back in his car and keep driving. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. – Helen Hayes
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country." – Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup. – American Proverb
He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot. – Unknown

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