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- Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
- Walt Kelly (1913 - 1973), "Pogo" (comic strip)
- Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
- Bob Edwards
- A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
- Joseph Roux
- What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
- The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
- Amanda Cross (1926 - )
- The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
- Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
- An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
- Edwin P. Whipple
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