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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
- Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 - 1989)
- The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
- Dean Martin
- True happiness... arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- My computer beat me at chess... so I beat it at kickboxing.
- Demetri Martin
- Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
- Jack Layton, Letter to Canada, 08-20-2011
- Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.
- John Lancaster Spalding
- The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), 'Prejudices: Fourth Series,' 1924
- The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.
- Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
- Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), In Life of Oscar Wilde, H. Pearson
- Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Essays, First Series: Prudence, 1841
- No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.
- Minor White
- You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- A minute's success pays the failure of years.
- Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
- Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.
- Chilo
- For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
- Storm Jameson
- You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
- Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.
- Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
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