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- If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good!
- Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
- Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.
- Elvis Costello (1954 - ), from "Riot Act"
- We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was designed to allow for life.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
- Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.
- Michael Landon (1936 - 1991)
- Nature is not cruel, pitiless, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.
- Richard Dawkins (1941 - )
- There's never a new fashion but it's old.
- Geoffrey Chaucer (1342 - 1400)
- I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), quoted in Rudolf Flesch, ed., "The New Book of Unusual Quotations" (NY: Harper & Row, 1966), p. 311
- Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
- Henry W. Fowler (1858 - 1933), A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)
- 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
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