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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
- Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857
- Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
- You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
- Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
- The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
- Mark Russell (1932 - )
- Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'
- Terry Pratchett, Soul Music, page 151
- Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
- What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.
- Cindy Gardner
- An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- Good food ends with good talk.
- Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993
- Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
- Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992
- What's another word for Thesaurus?
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- The wages of sin are unreported.
- Unknown
- Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
- One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
- There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
- Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), "Catch-22"
- Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
- Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
- Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
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