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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
- Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
- Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.
- Dorothy Draper
- Man is what he believes.
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
- Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 06-10-04
- In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything.
- Jeffery F. Chamberlain
- Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool. Yet there are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
- Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970)
- At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
- Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
- I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2002
- Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
- He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
- There is no remedy for love but to love more.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, July 25, 1839
- Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
- Eugene S. Wilson
- My computer beat me at chess... so I beat it at kickboxing.
- Demetri Martin
- Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
- Rita Mae Brown
- An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- [M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
- Michelle Burford, O Magazine, 2003
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