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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
- National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"
- We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
- If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em.
- Yogi Berra (1925 - ), as quoted by Joe Garagiola on the Jack Paar show, NBC 1963
- Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.
- Sylvia Robinson
- Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money
- The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
- Thomas Overbury (1581 - 1613)
- I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
- Carolyn Heilbrun (1926 - )
- I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
- Fritz Perls
- Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
- A friend is a gift you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
- Paul Dudley White
- I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
- Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
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