Random Quotations

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Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
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Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
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Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
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Mignon McLaughlin
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
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William Safire (1929 - )
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Worries go down better with soup than without.
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Jewish Proverb
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
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Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-14-2003
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
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Mario Puzo (1920 - 1999), 'The Godfather'
I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.
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John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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Mae West (1892 - 1980)
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 - 1983), quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
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Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
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Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 08-06-08
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of the Island, 1915
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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