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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
- A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
- Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.
- Dave Barry (1947 - )
- Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
- Theodore Parker (1810 - 1860)
- Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.
- Barbara Schapiro, O Magazine, May 2003
- If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.
- Brendan Francis
- If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
- If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
- Frank Wilczek (1951 - )
- That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
- Simone de Beauvoir
- No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959), quoted in his obituary, April 9, 1959
- You threaten to punch someone in the face, what do they do? They duck. You try to punch 'em in the wallet and they always open up.
- Howard Gordon and Evan Katz, Awake, Ricky's Tacos, April 2012
- If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.
- Immanuel Hermann Fichte
- Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
- James Beard
- A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
- Peter McArthur
- I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
- I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Raisins, 2003
- Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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