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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present?
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom! - Laurie Anderson
- The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was noone on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed.
- Ellen DeGeneres, My Point and I Do Have One
- A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
- Thomas Hardy
- I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
- Charles De Secondat (1689 - 1755)
- Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
- For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
- Storm Jameson
- I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
- An English Professor, Ohio University
- Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
- Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
- Jay Leno (1950 - )
- A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed)
- I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?
- Jay Leno (1950 - )
- Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
- I shall not pretend that I do not prefer to have people adore me rather than revile me, but I have always found that it was far easier for me to suffer the disapprobation of others than to amend my behaviour in order to find favour with them.
- Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
- When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.
- William Hale White
- I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
- Antonia Brenner
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