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- The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
- William Feather (1908 - 1976)
- 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
- A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
- Brendan Francis
- I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
- Truman Capote (1924 - 1984)
- 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)
- I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
- Upton Sinclair (1878 - 1968), on his novel, "The Jungle" (1906)
- Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Pygmalion" (1913)
- No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), from Boswell's Life of Johnson
- Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), "The Unquiet Grave", 1945
- See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
- Robin Williams (1951 - )
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