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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I get a lot of cracks about my hair, mostly from men who don't have any.
- Ann Richards
- Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.
- Louise Beal
- The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses.
- Alan Moore (1953 - ), Watchmen, 1986
- What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
- P. D. James, Time to Be in Earnest
- A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
- Robertson Davies, "What's Bred in the Bone"
- The report of my death was an exaggeration.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), New York Journal, June 2, 1897
- Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works.
- David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008
- Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later.
- Alice Munro
- Vigorous writing is concise.
- William Strunk Jr., "The Elements of Style", 1919
- You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Bear Who Let It Alone"
- Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
- Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959)
- My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), John Bull's Other Island (1907) act 2
- If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
- James Madison (1751 - 1836)
- The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
- J. W. Schopf
- We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
- Czech Proverb
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