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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
- Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
- Woody Allen (1935 - ), My Speech to the Graduates
- Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world.
- Scipione Alberti
- Maybe I want strangers to think I’m cool since people who actually know me don’t.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.
- Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, March 10, 2008
- A man that don't believe in destiny don't need to know what his destiny is.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 08-20-08
- If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
- Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), US Secretary of Defense
- What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- It’s such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.
- Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 02-09-05
- Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
- Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990)
- Lack of money is the root of all evil.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
- Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
- Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
- When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 4, 2003
- Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
- His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
- Robert W. Sarnoff
- Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for.
- Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
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