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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
- Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
- Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
- If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me
- Jimmy Buffett, Song Title
- Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
- Carl Zwanzig
- Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
- Sidney J. Harris
- I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
- John Constable (1776 - 1837)
- Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
- Robert Byrne
- Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
- Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
- E. B. White (1899 - 1985), New Yorker, July 3, 1944
- Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
- Swedish Proverb
- The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916), from his essay about the rules of writing
- Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- We're all in this alone.
- Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
- He talked with more claret than clarity.
- Susan Ertz
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