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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- The worst thing about Europe is that you can't go out in the middle of the night and get a Slurpee.
- Tellis Frank
- I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
- A. Whitney Brown
- Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
- Japanese Proverb
- Passion is seldom the end of any story, for it cannot long endure if it is not soon supplemented with true affection and mutual respect.
- Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
- To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.
- Sharon Salzberg
- One man practicing sportsmanship is better than a hundred teaching it.
- Knute Rockne (1888 - 1931)
- Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'
- Sue Halpern, O Magazine, September 2003
- Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- Dance like it hurts,
Love like you need money, Work when people are watching. - Scott Adams (1957 - ), The Way of the Weasel
- Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
- Catherine de Hueck Doherty
- The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.
- Kevin Bacon, People, 06-13-2011
- The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
- Stephen Nachmanovitch
- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
- A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.
- John Heywood (1497 - 1580)
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