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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
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Jay Leno (1950 - )
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
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Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), 'Strength to Love,' 1963
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
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Elizabeth Elton Smith
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
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De La Lastra's Law
Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool. Yet there are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.
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Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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Ursula K. LeGuin
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
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Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Meditations'
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - )
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
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Gladys Bronwyn Stern
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
...myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.
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Roger Moore (1927 - )
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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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