Random Quotations

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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince"
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
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Unknown
I read part of it all the way through.
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Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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Senator Patrick Leahy (1940 - ), May 1990
The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.
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Joe Martin, Porterfield
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
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Stephen King (1947 - )
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
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Thomas Bailey, 'Leaves from a Notebook,' Ponkapog Papers, 1903
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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P. D. James
Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
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W.E.B. Du Bois, Speech at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, August 1906
If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.
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Thomas Secker
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
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H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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Jane Goodall (1934 - )
Honor does not have to be defended.
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Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
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Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.
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Charles Luckman
If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.
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Sefer Hasidim
My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.
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Rita Rudner
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
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Lyman Beecher (1775 - 1863)
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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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