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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell (1900 - 1949)
- So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
- Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
- I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
- Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming of the Screw"
- Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- All things are difficult before they are easy.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
- There’s a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
- Bob Edwards
- My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002
- There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
- Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980)
- We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
- Unknown
- One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), L'Envoi, 1882
- Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
- David Sedaris, interview in Louisville Courier-Journal, June 5, 2005
- There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface
- Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
- Franklin P. Jones
- Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
- Prince Charles (1948 - ), of Wales
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