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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
- La Fontaine
- Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999
- My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
- Peter De Vries
- The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
- Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Thanksgiving, 1992
- A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
- Gian Vincenzo Gravina (1664 - 1718)
- She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
- Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.
- Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
- That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), 'But the One on the Right,' in New Yorker, 1929
- Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
- Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?
- Betty White, Mark Twain Prize, 2010
- Be not slow to visit the sick.
- Ecclesiastes
- The only joy in the world is to begin.
- Cesare Pavese (1908 - 1950)
- Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
- Jay Leno (1950 - )
- A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
- Lord Acton, Letter to Mary Gladstone, 1881
- Only the shallow know themselves.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, 1882
- Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 1 Ignore Everybody, 08-22-04
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