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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891
- The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.
- Elmer Davis (1890 - 1958)
- In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
- Aaron Rose
- Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco (1932 - )
- Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.
- Wil Wheaton, WIL WHEATON dot NET, 12-16-2013
- The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), 'Prejudices: Fourth Series,' 1924
- No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
- Wendy Wasserstein (1950 - 2005), Isn't It Romantic, 1983
- A Hospital is no place to be sick.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- 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
- Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
- Golda Meir (1898 - 1978)
- History never looks like history when you are living through it.
- John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002), quoted by Bill Moyers
- When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.
- Anzia Yezierska
- The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- The meek shall inherit the earth? Well... I don't think so. If by meek you mean friendly and introverted, okay maybe, but if by meek you mean unwilling to take a chance, then never. If I was a betting man and I had to wager on who I thought would inherit the earth, my money would be on the curious.
- Jim Coudal, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
- Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
- Alan Corenk
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