Random Quotations

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Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
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Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940), Diary in Exile (1959)
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
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Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
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Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
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Maya Angelou (1928 - )
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
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Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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Franklin P. Jones
Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
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Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
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Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
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Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
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Golda Meir (1898 - 1978)
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
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W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch.
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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
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Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
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Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007), Armies Of The Night
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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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