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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
- Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
- William Cobbett (1763 - 1835)
- Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
- Mignon McLaughlin
- Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
- A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
- W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
- It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
- O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, 1604-1605
- Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me.
- Colleen Wainwright, communicatrix, 03-23-2006
- Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.
- George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)
- The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
- The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.
- Cindy Gardner
- Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.
- Ralph Novak
- Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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