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It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
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George Saunders, last words
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.
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Christina Stead (1903 - 1983), House of All Nations (1938) "Credo"
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
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P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ), Parliament of Whores (1991)
Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.
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Mary Chase (1887 - 1973), Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in "Harvey", 1950
Acting like someone you're not is exactly what it takes to realize you're capable of more than you ever knew.
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Rob Sheridan, Mad Love, The Young and The Reckless, 2011
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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Sir Richard Steele
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
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Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
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Bill Cosby (1937 - )
An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.
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Bill Vaughan
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
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A. H. Weiler (1909 - 2002)
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961), "Carpe Noctem, If You Can", in "Credos and Curios" (1962)
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
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Daphne du Maurier (1907 - 1989)
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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Colette (1873 - 1954), 'Freedom,' 1908
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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Dick Cavett (1936 - )
Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.
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Martin Mull (1943 - )
Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.
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J. B. Priestley (1894 - 1984)
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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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