Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
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-- Groucho Marx Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
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Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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-- Wernher Von Braun By Region "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
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- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton By Region
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-- George Bernard Shaw "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) By Region Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
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-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) By Region
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
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-- Mortimer J. Adler The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
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-- Gore Vidal Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
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-- Claudette Colbert The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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-- Sigmund Freud By Region
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson By Region
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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-- Thornton Wilder Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken By Region If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
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necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) By Region
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
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-- Samuel Johnson I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
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-- Lord Dewar By Region
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
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-- Anonymous "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) By Region If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
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-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle By Region
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
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-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) By Region Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
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-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
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-- Ed Abbey "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
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-- Oscar Wilde By Region
