Random Quotations

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Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.
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Bern Williams
No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.
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Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
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Toni Cade Bambara
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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Carl Reiner
A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.
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Frank Westheimer, Westheimers Discovery
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are.
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Kurt Cobain (1967 - 1994)
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
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Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
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Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), In Life of Oscar Wilde, H. Pearson
Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.
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Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.
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Solon (638 BC - 559 BC)
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
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Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)
Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.
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Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
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Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell.
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Marita Bonner
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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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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