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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
- Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
- Bernard Berenson (1865 - 1959)
- Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), The Physiology of Taste, 1825
- Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
- Politics is applesauce.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 02-25-09
- Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
- Francis Cardinal Spellman (1889 - 1967)
- Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
- Colette (1873 - 1954), 'Freedom,' 1908
- Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it.
- Anonymous, O Magazine, The Shy Girl's Guide to Sex, February 2003
- Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- I like life. It's something to do.
- Ronnie Shakes
- Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
- Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
- Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
- Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001)
- And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Jerry Chin
- Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
- Jim Hightower, The New York Times, March 9, 1986
- You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
- H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - )
- People don't believe what you tell them.
They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves. - Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-29-06
- As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
- H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925), King Solomon's Mines
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