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- Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express.
- Caldwell O'Keefe
- I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809), "The Rights of Man", 1792
- Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Novel 'Hocus Pocus' 1990
- He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146
- He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.
- Dr. Isaac Barrow (1630 - 1677), quoted in Fifty Years of Sheffield Church Life 1866-1916 by Rev. W. Odom
- All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
- The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), "The True Believer", 1951
- I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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