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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed; also attributed to Ann Landers)
- Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- Who you are moment to moment is just a story.
- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
- Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- 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
- Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
- Isabel Colegate
- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
- Doris Lessing
- I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.
- Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
- To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.
- Cynthia Ozick
- A friend is a second self.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
- Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)
- My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
- Penn Jillette (1955 - ), in a Compuserve chat
- Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
- Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
- Dorothy Sarnoff
- What you are is a question only you can answer.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice, 1986
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