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Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, sc. 1
Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.
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Eric Gibson, in The Wall Street Journal
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
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Stephen King (1947 - ), "Hearts in Atlantis"
A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.
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Willis Player
How soon was it that the dead are brought to deity in the eyes of those who in life found them little regard.
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Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
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Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850
We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.
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John M. Ford
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
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Rita Rudner
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
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Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906), An Enemy of the People, 1882
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
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Jacques Delille
Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.
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Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 2008
I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
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John Keats (1795 - 1821)
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004), quoted in Observer, March 29 1981
Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 11-07-05
In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
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Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door, 2002
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
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Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
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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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