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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
- Edna Buchanan
- Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
- Carol Burnett (1936 - )
- 1. Never tell everything at once.
- Ken Venturi, Ken Venturi's Two Great Rules of Life
- An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
- Dan Rather (1931 - )
- A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it.
- Joan Rivers (1935 - )
- There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
- Cullen Hightower
- Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
- Joy is not in things; it is in us.
- Richard Wagner
- Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Economy, 1854
- Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
- Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
- Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.
- Unknown
- I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.
- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
- A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
- James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
- Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
- There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- I'm as pure as the driven slush.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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