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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
- Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
- Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
- Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- Age is no guarantee of maturity.
- Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
- Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980), In Simon Rose, Classic Film Guide (1995)
- If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
- George E. Woodberry
- The only paradise is paradise lost.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
- When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
- Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951
- Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
- Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds.
- Unknown
- Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
- Erica Jong
- Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.
- Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07
- There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
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