A Quote by Sam Walton

Curiosity doesn't kill the cat; it kills the competition.

Sam Walton

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Sam Walton
American - Businessman
March 29, 1918 - April 5, 1992

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

Harry Lorayne

Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.

Laird Barron

Curiosity did kill the cat, but I'm very curious.

Brittany Murphy

And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye.

John Milton

A battle is a terrible conjugation of the verb to kill: I kill, thou killest, he kills, we kill, they kill, all kill.

Thomas Carlyle

Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jewelled cat, miraculous cat! Cat, cat, cat, cat.

Doris Lessing

My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.

Studs Terkel

Curiosity kills itself; and love is only curiosity, as is proved by its end.

Lord Byron

Dikaios smacked Elam with his tail. "His curiosity wouldn't kill a sick kitten, much less a cat.

Bryan Davis

Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.

Joseph de Maistre

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.

Terry Pratchett

Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.

Yoko Ono

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Ernest Hemingway

I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I suppose if I have an epitaph it would be: "Curiosity Did Not Kill This Cat." I don't see retiring in the sense that we view it - I don't see how I could. Dying at the microphone or at the typewriter would not be bad.

Studs Terkel

I will find a way to you if it kills me if it kills me if it kills me (I think it might kill me).

Jason Mraz

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