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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
- A life lived in chaos is an impossibility...
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - )
- Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
- Prince Charles (1948 - ), of Wales
- My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
- Trieu Thi Trinh
- Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
- Ellen Glasgow (1873 - 1945), The Woman Within, 1954
- I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
- The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary.
- Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 02-01-09
- Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.
- Lady Gaga (1986 - ), Ellen Degeneres Show, 09-08-09
- More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
- Woody Allen (1935 - ), My Speech to the Graduates
- The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.
- Shakti Gawain
- Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.
- David Shore, House M.D., Last Temptation, 2011
- Reprove thy friend privately; commend him publicly.
- Solon (638 BC - 559 BC)
- We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
- Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950), Americans and Others, 1912
- Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
- Robert Byrne
- It's a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, but few are chosen.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- The meal is not over when I'm full. The meal is over when I hate myself.
- Louis C. K., Louis C. K.: Chewed Up, 2008
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