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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
- Jackie Mason (1934 - )
- Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
- Frank Tyger
- To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.
- Karl von Bonstetten
- She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.
- Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
- I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), upon being told the cost of an operation
- I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
- If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
- Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
- Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
- Billy Wilder (1906 - 2002)
- [Television is] the triumph of machine over people.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
- John Erskine (1879 - 1951)
- If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
- Jimmy Buffett
- We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
- Children will adapt to nearly any rule or routine as long as it is consistently enforced within that particular household.
- Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
- The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE.
- Ernst Haas, Comment in workshop, 1985
- Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
- Slovenian Proverb
- In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.
- Kathy Sierra, Creating Passionate Users, 07-22-06
- A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
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