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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- When you drink the water, remember the spring.
- Chinese Proverb
- The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
- Desiderius Erasmus (1466 - 1536)
- When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
- I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
- Carolyn Heilbrun (1926 - )
- To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
- Katharine Graham
- I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
- Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
- Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
- Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
- Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
- Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939), Sitting on the World, 1924
- Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
- There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
- Doris Mortman
- When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom! - Laurie Anderson
- In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
- R. A. Butler (1902 - 1982)
- For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
- Ingrid Bengis
- For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
- Bob Wells
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