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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh.
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Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Diaries of Adam and Eve
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
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Rita Rudner
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.
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Claude M. Bristol
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), The Open Door (1957)
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.
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Daniel Considine
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
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African Proverb
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
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Joe Ancis
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
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Robert Byrne
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
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Aneurin Bevan (1897 - 1960)
I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
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Bruce Grocott (1940 - )
In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
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Rabbi Seymour Siegel
Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream.
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W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
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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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