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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
- Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950), A Guide to Men, 1922
- Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
- Johann K. Lavater
- Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
- Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
- Reality continues to ruin my life.
- Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin and Hobbes
- A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
- Michael Pritchard
- In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- It’s really easy to complain. If you’re not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good.
- Lisa Williams, Bloggers In Love, SXSW 2006
- Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.
- Johann Georg von Zimmermann
- I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother.
- W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
- After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
- Evelyn Underhill
- A mind too active is no mind at all.
- Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963)
- In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try.
- Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
- I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think interior decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
- Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
- Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.
- Pierre Gallois
- Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
- Robert Orben
- When a problem can’t be solved, an attitude of acceptance makes room in your mind and heart for solutions to the problems that do need to be solved.
- Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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