You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
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-- Beverly Sills Hotels Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
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-- Jenny Weber Hotels God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
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-- Anonymous After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Hotels
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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-- Elsa Schiapirelli Hotels Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
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-- Anonymous Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Hotels
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
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-- William Penn Hotels
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
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-- William Jennings Bryant As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Hotels
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
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Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Hotels Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Hotels
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
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With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
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