Random Quotations

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May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.
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Hadewijch of Antwerp
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.
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Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.
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Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
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William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
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George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
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Sydney Biddle Barrows, in Marian Christy, ''Mayflower Madam' Tells All,' Boston Globe, 1986
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It's harder to make something good when you can't curse all the time.
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Tina Fey, Max 60 Seconds, 2008
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
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Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961)
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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.
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William Baziotes
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We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.
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Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
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Thomas Hardy
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This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.
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Captain J. A. Hadfield
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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
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Christopher Hampton
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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
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Baltasar Gracian
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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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