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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.
- Hank Green, Vlogbrothers, Cat GIF Critique, 04-26-13
- Never promise more than you can perform.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.
- Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
- All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- I am no more humble than my talents require.
- Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
- We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.
- Jimmy Carter (1924 - ), in his farewell address
- The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
- Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950), A Guide to Men, 1922
- It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.
- Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007)
- If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
- Maria Schell
- It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
- Sir Edward Appleton (1892 - 1965)
- The meal is not over when I'm full. The meal is over when I hate myself.
- Louis C. K., Louis C. K.: Chewed Up, 2008
- People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
- Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
- Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
- Belgian Proverb
- When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
- Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost, 1934
- There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
- Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)
- A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
- Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race (1922)
- I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
- Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
- Do not employ handsome servants.
- Chinese Proverb
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