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What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion, Act 2
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
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Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.
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Sally Kempton
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
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Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
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Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
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Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming of the Screw"
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
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Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.
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Saadi (1184 - 1291)
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.
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Stella Terrill Mann
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
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John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted Prose (1965)
A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing... It takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.
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Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909)
Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.
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Cher (1946 - )
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
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H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
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Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
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Marie Beyon Ray
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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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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