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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
- Bob Edwards
- A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
- Rita Rudner
- Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
- The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
- Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
- Ramsay Clark
- Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.
- John Wayne (1907 - 1979), Advice on acting
- You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
- Michael Pritchard
- The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.
- Elain Heffner, O Magazine, May 2003
- With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
- Steven Weinberg (1933 - ), quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
- Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552 - 1618)
- The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
- Christina Baldwin
- Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
- Walter Winchell (1897 - 1972)
- You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- Thinking you won’t die is yet another side effect of dying.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it.
- Knute Rockne (1888 - 1931)
- Silence is the virtue of fools.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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