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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
- George F. Will (1941 - ), Statecraft as Soulcraft
- We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
- Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
- You try to give away what you want yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
- Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
- Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
- A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
- Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)
- Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
- Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
- A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.
- Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
- Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
- Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
- Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
- J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976)
- Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool. Yet there are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.
- Solon (638 BC - 559 BC)
- An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Histoire d'un crime,' 1852
- If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
- Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost, 1934
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
- Lord Acton, Letter to Mary Gladstone, 1881
- I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
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