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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I think the world is run by 'C' students.
- Al McGuire
- Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.
- Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
- When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
- Quintilian
- Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, Casting Call, 10-21-13
- Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
- Germaine Greer, O Magazine, September 2002
- Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.
- Stella Benson
- Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), David Copperfield, 1849
- The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), in New York Times, 1985
- In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
- 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)
- The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
- The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
- John Irving (1942 - )
- I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'
- Earl Warren (1891 - 1974), Chief Justice
- Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915
- I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
- Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, February 11, 1840
- I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
- Rita Rudner
- Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
- Erica Jong, O Magazine, February 2004
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