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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
The worst thing about Europe is that you can't go out in the middle of the night and get a Slurpee.
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Tellis Frank
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
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A. Whitney Brown
Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
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Japanese Proverb
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Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.
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Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.
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Sharon Salzberg
One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it.
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Knute Rockne (1888 - 1931)
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'
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Sue Halpern, O Magazine, September 2003
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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
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Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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Dance like it hurts,
Love like you need money,
Work when people are watching.
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Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Way of the Weasel
Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
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Catherine de Hueck Doherty
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The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.
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Kevin Bacon, People, 06-13-2011
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The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
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Stephen Nachmanovitch
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.
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Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
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A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.
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John Heywood (1497 - 1580)
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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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