Random Quotations

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We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
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Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.
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Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple Confidential 2.0
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
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W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
Exercise is medicine. Literally. Just like a pill, it reliably changes brain function by altering the activity of key brain chemicals and hormones.
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Stephen S. Ilardi PhD, The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs, 2009
It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.
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Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
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Doug Larson
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
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Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
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Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism"
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.
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Endicott Peabody (1857 - 1944)
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
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Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
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Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?'
'Well, that would be a start.'
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Peter Stone, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in "Charade", 1963
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Ecce Homo, Foreword
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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