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  2. The road to hell is paved with good intentions - Wikipedia

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    [15] [16] James Boswell's 1791 biography of Samuel Johnson quotes Johnson as saying to an acquaintance in 1775 "Sir, hell is paved with good intentions." [17] An earlier iteration "borrowed of" another language was "Hell is full of good meanings and wishes" and was published in 1670 in A Collection of English Proverbs collected by John Ray. [18]

  3. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    You may/might as well be hanged/hung for a sheep as (for) a lamb; You must have rocks in your head; You scratch my back and I will scratch yours; You only live once. You'll never get if you never go; You're never fully dressed without a smile; You've got to separate the wheat from the chaff; You've made your bed and you must lie in/on it

  4. George S. Patton's speech to the Third Army - Wikipedia

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    Sure, we all want to go home. We want to get this war over with. But you can't win a war lying down. The quickest way to get it over with is to get the bastards who started it. We want to get the hell over there and clean the goddamn thing up, and then get at those purple-pissing Japs. [a] The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we go home ...

  5. Best Horror Movie Quotes of All Time - AOL

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    22. "Look, your daughter doesn't say she's a demon. She says she's the devil himself. And if you've seen as many psychotics as I have, you'd know it's like saying you're Napoleon Bonaparte."

  6. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad - Wikipedia

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    The saying Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad, sometimes given in Latin as Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat (literally: Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first deprives of reason) or Quem Iuppiter vult perdere, dementat prius (literally: Those whom Jupiter wishes to destroy, he first deprives of reason) has been used in English literature since at least the 17th century.

  7. List of catchphrases in American and British mass media

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    These are not merely catchy sayings. Even though some sources may identify a phrase as a catchphrase, this list is for those that meet the definition given in the lead section of the catchphrase article and are notable for their widespread use within the culture.

  8. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - Wikipedia

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    God may cast wicked men into Hell at any given moment. The wicked deserve to be cast into Hell. Divine justice does not prevent God from destroying the wicked at any moment. The wicked, at this moment, suffer under God's condemnation to Hell. The wicked, on earth—at this very moment—suffer a sample of the torments of Hell.

  9. 'I'm Mad as Hell': Famous Movie Quotes About the Workplace - AOL

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    When fictional television anchor Howard Beale leaned out of the window, chanting, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" in the 1976 movie 'Network,' he struck a chord with ...