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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), 'Art,' 1841
- When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
- George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
- Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 06-10-04
- Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
- George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
- The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
- Kilgore Trout, (Philip Jose Farmer), "Venus on the Half Shell"
- At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.
- Phillip C. McGraw, O Magazine, February 2003
- There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
- Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950)
- It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
- Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950
- Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, September 26, 1712
- Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
- It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
- Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)
- I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
- Richard Pryor (1940 - 2005), Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004
- We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down.
- Sara June Parker
- Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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