A man hears what he wants to hear
and disregards the rest.
-- Paul Simon
and disregards the rest.
-- Paul Simon
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- Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
Paul... - It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Dick... - A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
Arthur... - A man gets what he wants by acting smart; a woman,
by playing dumb... - He who says what he likes, hears what he does not like.
Spanish... - A man is a success if he gets up in the morning
and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do." -- Bob... - If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music he hears however measured... - Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he
wants it.
However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes...
From the same category:
- The body of a huge green dead dragon is lying off to
one side... - She's like a rose to me. They smell and so does she.
Homer... - Death
Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear
His famine should be fill'd.
John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii... - The trouble with opportunity is that it
always comes disguised as hard work.
Herbert V.... - When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Epistle i, Book...
