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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.
- David Shore, House M.D., Not Cancer, 2008
- Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988), The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1
- You never can see into someone else's marriage.
- Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
- Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
- Vachel Lindsay (1879 - 1931)
- Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
- Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
- Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
- Robert Byrne
- Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
- Be not slow to visit the sick.
- Ecclesiastes
- America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), The Mother, 1932
- The best things carried to excess are wrong.
- Charles Churchill
- History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
- Leonard Louis Levinson
- Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
- Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
- Brendan Gill
- Good order is the foundation of all things.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), 'Reflections on the Revolution in France,' 1790
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
- Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
- Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
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