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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 5, 2003
- The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- The more you know, the less you need.
- Aboriginal Saying
- Why be a man when you can be a success?
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
- Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
- Marcus Valerius Martialis (40 AD - 103 AD)
- I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.
- William Goldman, The Princess Bride
- If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
- Denise Levertov
- I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- The wages of sin are unreported.
- Unknown
- Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
- We are always the same age inside.
- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
- One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
- Marlo Thomas
- Trust one who has gone through it.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), The Aeneid
- I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
- Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
- Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.
- Janet Long
- I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
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