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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
- Seth MacFarlane, The Family Guy
- People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), "Of Human Bondage", 1915
- Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.
- Lin Yutang
- Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
- William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
- Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), "The Brothers Karamazov"
- Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- Mighty hard to tell the people you love you're a failure.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 11-28-07
- One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
- Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
- Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
- Rita Rudner
- Nothing fails like success.
- Gerald Nachman
- Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
- Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
- Pete Seeger
- A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.
- Denise Mina, Hellblazer: Empathy is the Enemy, 2006
- You must not come lightly to the blank page.
- Stephen King (1947 - ), On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000
- A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
- Dutch Proverb
- Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
- I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain.
- Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906)
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