Famous Quotes
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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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Edgar Bergen, (Charlie McCarthy)
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US comedian & ventriloquist (1903 - 1978)
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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Irv Kupcinet
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Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
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Elbert Hubbard
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US author (1856 - 1915)
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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write
about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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Robert Cecil Day Lewis
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Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second
remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.
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Ashley Montagu
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Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts
flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the
immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
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Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
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German (Swiss-born) alchemist & physician (1493 - 1541)
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Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.
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Thomas Troward
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It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have
passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an
essential part of a Roman triumph.
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Joseph Addison
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English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 - 1719)
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A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
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Jim Bishop
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If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing
is to get the work done.
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Dale Carnegie
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all
the ill-desert of falsehood.
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Tyron Edwards
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It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
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R. W. Griswold
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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for
exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the
test of a free and public examination.
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Immanuel Kant
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German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of
Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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US poet (1807 - 1882)
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We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
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Marianne Moore
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Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
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Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism
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English poet & satirist (1688 - 1744)
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In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not
do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
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Charles M. Schwab
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Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and honestly to award - these are the true aims
and duties of criticism.
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Simms
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Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
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Henry Van Dyke
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There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.
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Author Unknown
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It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.
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Author Unknown
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Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.
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Author Unknown
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It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us.
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Author Unknown
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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is,
because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
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John Locke
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English empiricist philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.
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Yiddish Proverb
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.
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Leonardo Da Vinci
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Italian engineer, painter, & sculptor (1452 - 1519)
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It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
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Eric Hoffer
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(1902 - 1983)
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Nothing fails like success.
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Gerald Nachman
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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
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Ogden Nash
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US humorist & poet (1902 - 1971)
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
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Jackie Mason
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US comedian (1934 - )
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There must be more to life than having everything.
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Maurice Sendak
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US juvenile illustrator (1928 - )
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Life is just one damned thing after another.
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Elbert Hubbard
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US author (1856 - 1915)
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My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
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Errol Flynn
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US (Australian-Tasmanian-born) movie actor (1909 - 1959)
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The wages of sin are unreported.
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Quotations by unknown authors
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War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
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Georges Clemenceau
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French politician (1841 - 1929)
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Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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Fletcher Knebel
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Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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Elbert Hubbard
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US author (1856 - 1915)
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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Hermann Hesse
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Swiss (German-born) author (1877 - 1962)
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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Walter Winchell
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US gossip columnist & broadcast journalist (1897 - 1972)
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Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
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Ann Landers
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US advice columnist (1918 - 2002)
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Ninety percent of everything is crap.
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Theodore Sturgeon
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US science fiction author (1918 - 1985)
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All phone calls are obscene.
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Karen Elizabeth Gordon
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Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
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Tommy Cooper
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I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.
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Richard Diran
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
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Elbert Hubbard
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US author (1856 - 1915)
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Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.
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Evan Davis
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I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck.
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Graffito, in Los Angeles
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Nothing ever goes away.
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Barry Commoner
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US biologist & educator (1917 - )
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God help those who do not help themselves.
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Wilson Mizner
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US screenwriter (1876 - 1933)
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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(1742 - 1799)
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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William Blake
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English engraver, illustrator, & poet (1757 - 1827)
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I think it would be a good idea.
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Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
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Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Anatole France
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French novelist (1844 - 1924)
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
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Hubert H. Humphrey
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US politician (1911 - 1978)
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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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Emily Dickinson
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US poet (1830 - 1886)
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Reality is something you rise above.
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Liza Minnelli
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US actress & singer (1946 - )
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Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.
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Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin)
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The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
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Dick Werthimer
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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Truman Capote
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US author (1924 - 1984)
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How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?
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Woody Allen
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US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )
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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.
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Sir Julian Huxley
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English administrator & biologist (1887 - 1975)
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Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies.
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Adrienne E. Gusoff
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US teacher, humorist and greeting card writer
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I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.
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Adrienne E. Gusoff
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US teacher, humorist and greeting card writer
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My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.
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Rita Rudner
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US comedian
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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
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Henny Youngman
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US (English-born) comedian (1906 - 1998)
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I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
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Oscar Levant
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(1906 - 1972)
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Children are all foreigners.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)
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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
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Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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US author & wit (1884 - 1980)
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It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
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Jerome K. Jerome
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British humor writer (1859 - 1927)
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I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight.
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Rita Rudner
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US comedian
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Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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French author & moralist (1613 - 1680)
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The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.
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From the 1985 movie "Bliss"
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I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
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Henny Youngman
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US (English-born) comedian (1906 - 1998)
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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
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Plato
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Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)
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One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
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Alice James
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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
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Jerome K. Jerome
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British humor writer (1859 - 1927)
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What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
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Dave Barry
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US columnist & humorist (1947 - )
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Bertrand Russell
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British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
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John D. Rockefeller
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US oil industrialist & philanthropist (1839 - 1937)
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Living in a vacuum sucks.
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Adrienne E. Gusoff
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US teacher, humorist and greeting card writer
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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
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Philip Johnson
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US architect (1906 - 2005)
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It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
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Dame Rose Macaulay
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English novelist (1881 - 1958)
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Blame someone else and get on with your life.
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Alan Woods
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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Samuel Johnson
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English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)
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I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
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Herb Caen
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
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Henry Kissinger
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US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 - )
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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
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Sir Thomas Beecham
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English conductor (1879 - 1961)
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The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.
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From "Taxi"
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Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
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Joe Theismann, Former quarterback
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Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
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Erma Bombeck
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US author & humorist (1927 - 1996)
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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
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Raymond Chandler
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US detective novelist & screenwriter (1888 - 1959)
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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Aristotle
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Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)
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We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
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Jeff Marder
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I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
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Stephen Leacock
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Canadian economist & humorist (1869 - 1944)
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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
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Katharine Whitehorn
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There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.
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Lester J. Pourciau
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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
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Niels Bohr
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Danish physicist (1885 - 1962)
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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.
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Norman Brenner
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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H. L. Mencken
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US editor (1880 - 1956)
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The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.
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Jay Leno
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US comedian & television host (1950 - )
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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
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Fran Lebowitz
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US writer and humorist (1950 - )
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The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
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Art Spander
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Of those who say nothing, few are silent.
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Thomas Neill
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Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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Nick Diamos
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War is not nice.
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Barbara Bush
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US wife of George Bush 1945 (1925 - )
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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Indira Gandhi, quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 1982
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Indian politician (1917 - 1984)
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An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
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Charles de Montesquieu
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French lawyer & philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
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Douglas Adams
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English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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Douglas Adams
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English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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Douglas Adams
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English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
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Mark Twain
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US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
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In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
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Douglas Adams
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English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something
even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another th
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