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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "Is Shakespeare Dead?"
- A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
- Robert Chapman
- The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.
- Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
- Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
- John Benfield
- Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.
- Bagdikian's Observation
- Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
- You don't have to die in order to make a living.
- Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 10-14-05
- Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)
- I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
- Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
- All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.
- Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer…
- Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
- Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977
- Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
- Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
- Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
- Edward Teller (1908 - 2003)
- I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.
- Lady Gaga (1986 - ), The Today Show, 12-08-08
- We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
- Walt Kelly (1913 - 1973), "Pogo" (comic strip)
- Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
- Jewish Proverb
- The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
- Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)
- Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
- William Arthur Ward
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