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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.
- Mary Wilson Little
- The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Mostly Harmless"
- The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.
- Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005
- Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
- Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
- Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
- Babylonian Talmud, tractate Gittin
- 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
- It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.
- Terri Minsky, Sex and the City, The Baby Shower, 1998
- Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
- Elie Wiesel (1928 - )
- My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
- Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
- Respect a man, he will do the more.
- James Howell
- If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
- But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
- Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, pg. 1 line 3-4
- Live always in the best company when you read.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.
- David Assael, Northern Exposure, Our Tribe, 1992
- Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- I'm a born-again atheist.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'
- A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
- Salman Rushdie (1947 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
- No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
- Clementine Paddleford
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