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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - [M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
- Michelle Burford, O Magazine, 2003
- Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
- John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922), (attributed)
- Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
- Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939), Sitting on the World, 1924
- The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
- Dick Werthimer
- Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
- Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
- It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
- John Gray, "Children Are From Heaven"
- Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
- Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
- It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
- Anne Tyler (1941 - ), Celestial Navigation, 1974
- There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
- Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
- Live well. It is the greatest revenge.
- The Talmud
- Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
- Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Be gentle with the young.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
- We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
- H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
- I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
- Lisa Alther, Kinflicks, 1975
- I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
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