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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - 1. Never tell everything at once.
- Ken Venturi, Ken Venturi's Two Great Rules of Life
- I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.
- Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
- To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
- Joan Klempner
- None of us is as smart as all of us.
- Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
- To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- Home is where the heart is, so your real home's in your chest.
- Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
- A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- Good food ends with good talk.
- Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993
- Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
- Jackie Mason (1934 - )
- The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
- Amanda Cross (1926 - )
- With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- [Spring is] when life's alive in everything.
- Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
- The human brain is unique in that it is the only container of which it can be said that the more you put into it, the more it will hold.
- Glenn Doman
- Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?'
- Johann K. Lavater
- The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.
- Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), Good Housekeeping, June 2011
- It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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