Random Quotations

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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)
Women should be obscene and not heard.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
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African Proverb
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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Arthur Brisbane
If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.
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George Winters
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), "The Brothers Karamazov"
It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.
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Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We’re looking for something, though we’re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.
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Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, February 13, 2003
Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back.
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Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
When I see somebody 'suffering for their art', it's usually a case of them not knowing where that red line is, not knowing where the sovereignty lies.
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Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 15, 08-22-04
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.
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Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
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Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
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Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
Life is full of obstacle illusions.
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Grant Frazier
Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.
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Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
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John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
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Gracie Allen (1906 - 1964)
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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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