Random Quotations

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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
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Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
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Henry J. Kaiser (1882 - 1967)
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
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Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
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Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 07-05-04
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.
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Rita Mae Brown
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
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Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), 1978
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.
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Anna Pavlova (1885 - 1931)
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
Nature abhors a vacuum, but not as much as cats do.
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Lee Entrekin
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.
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Stella Terrill Mann
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
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Joan Klempner
Good food ends with good talk.
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Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
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Maureen Dowd, in 'New York Times'
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
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Wally Lamb
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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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