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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
- Ann Richards
- We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
- Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
- No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
- There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
- Elizabeth Elton Smith
- Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
- Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
- Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
- We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
- May Sarton
- The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.
- Jeff Foxworthy
- Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
- John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922)
- What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
- Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain.
- Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
- You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.
- Meredith Willson, The Music Man
- Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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