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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
- Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005), O Magazine, September 2003
- A man that don't believe in destiny don't need to know what his destiny is.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 08-20-08
- The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
- Carl Becker
- An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ), interview with Barbara Walters on ABC-TV, March 18, 1987
- If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.
- Elaine Gill
- No good deed goes unpunished.
- Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
- When a problem can’t be solved, an attitude of acceptance makes room in your mind and heart for solutions to the problems that do need to be solved.
- Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
- I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977), In the film A Day at the Races
- For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
- Alice Kahn
- Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
- I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
- Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.
- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
- Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
- I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.
- John Gotti
- As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.
- Hagar the Horrible
- Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
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