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- If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything.
- David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
- It doesn't pay to be good at something unless you are the absolute best at it.
- Josh Lieb, I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President, 2009
- I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.
- Josh Lieb, I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President, 2009
- It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.
- Scott Berkun, Confessions of a Public Speaker, 2009
- If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.
- Scott Berkun, Confessions of a Public Speaker, 2009
- The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), All's Well that Ends Well, Act IV, sc. 3
- Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act III, sc. 1
- What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 4
- Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act III, sc. 3
- Talkers are no good doers; be assur'd we come to use our hands and not our tongues.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Richard III, Act I, sc. 3
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