Random Quotations

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Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
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Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971)
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.
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Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.
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Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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Jane Wagner, Lily Tomlin in "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"
He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.
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Eddie Cantor (1892 - 1964)
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
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Fred Allen (1894 - 1956), in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.
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Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
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Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Constantine Fitzgibbon, Life of Dylan Thomas (1965)
Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
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Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
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Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976
The future will be better tomorrow.
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Dan Quayle (1947 - )
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world.
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Wendell Berry
To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
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Nancy Friday
I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself.
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Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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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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