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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) - Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Song of Myself"
- It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
- One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
- Anonymous
- I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
- Rita Mae Brown, Starting From Scratch, 1988
- Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
- E. H. Gombrich (1909 - )
- I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.
- Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
- I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
- German Proverb
- Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a link in the evolution of life.
- Louis Schwartzberg, TED, the hidden beauty of pollination, March 2011
- What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
- Eleanor H. Porter (1868 - 1920), Pollyanna, 1912
- How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
- Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
- There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
- Robert Byrne
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