Random Quotations

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Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.
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Billy Crystal (1947 - )
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
I like sports bars. Sports bars are great because they collect all of the people I don't want to hang out with, and put them in one room.
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Demetri Martin, The Overthinker, Netflix, 2018
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
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Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
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Aaron McGruder, Boondocks, 07-04-04
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), inaugural address, January 20, 1961
In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 06-29-06
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
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Frank Leahy
We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
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James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
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Steven Spielberg
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), October 26, 1963
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech to the Republican National Committee, January 31, 1958
Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.
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Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.
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Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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