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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Ike's Wee Wee, 1998
- Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
- Blame someone else and get on with your life.
- Alan Woods
- Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
- Nadine Stair
- The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.
- Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
- In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Imagination is more important than knowledge...
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- When a problem can’t be solved, an attitude of acceptance makes room in your mind and heart for solutions to the problems that do need to be solved.
- Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
- There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
- Carol Matthau, O Magazine, October 2003
- Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
- Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
- Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
- The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
- Benjamin Haydon
- Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.
- John Muir (1838 - 1914), Our National Parks, 1901
- Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you.
- Madeline Bridges, O Magazine, December 2003
- Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.
- Blore's Razor
- Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.
- David Zucker (1947 - )
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