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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Even writers need relief from words.
- Sarah Vowell, O Magazine, March 2009
- After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
- The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged, 1957
- After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
- Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince"
- Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
- Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
- Maurice Chevalier (1888 - 1972)
- Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
- Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
- I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
- Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
- Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College
- Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.
- Lucille Clifton
- 'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.
- George Ade (1866 - 1944), "The Steel Box", 1898
- Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- The reverse side also has a reverse side.
- Japanese Proverb
- The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
- Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
- Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
- Robert Byrne
- Confusion is always the most honest response.
- Marty Indik
- The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
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