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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Technical term is narcissism. You can't believe everything is your fault unless you also believe you're all powerful.
- Matt Witten, House M.D., Humpty Dumpty, 2005
- Charity sees the need not the cause.
- German Proverb
- It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.
- Man Ray, O Magazine, September 2002
- Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
- Kathleen Norris
- If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
- Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
- The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
- [Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
- Alexander Smith (1830 - 1867)
- We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- When people think the world of you, be careful with them.
- Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho Blog, 09-26-05
- Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them.
- Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
- Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote. - Edward Young (1683 - 1765), Love of Fame (satire I, l. 89)
- Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.
- Jewish Proverb
- We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
- Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
- For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.
- Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
- What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
- George Dennison Prentice
- The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- A hug is a wonderful thing. It makes you feel wanted, needed, and loved all at the same time.
- Gregory Garcia and Dan Coscino, Raising Hope, Happy Halloween, October 26, 2010
- If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Warrior's Apprentice", 1986
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