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1. "Golf isn't a sport. It's landscaping with the wrong tools."

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2. "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants."

A. Whitney Brown

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

3. "Responsibility is the price of greatness."

Winston Churchill

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

4. "The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive, contemplative mood."

Susan Sontag

5. "Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people."

Philip Guedalla

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

6. "In fact nothing is said that has not been said before."

Terence, "Eunuchus"

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

7. "Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination."

William Hazlitt, "Sketches and Essays"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

8. "A business is too big when it takes a week for gossip to go from one end of the office to the other."

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9. "Taxpayer: A government worker with no vacation, no sick leave and no holidays."

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Quotations about: Authority, Government -:- Richness and Money

10. "God invented chocolate, the devil added the calories."

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11. "A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, "English Notebooks"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

12. "Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."

Edward Gibbon, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

13. "Perfection is a road, not a destination."

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14. "Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence. It is no more or less than faith in action."

Henry Chester

15. "DisneyLand: A people trap operated by a mouse."

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16. "Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires -:- Sin and Conscience

17. "The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

Chinese proverb

18. "Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear."

Ihab Hassan, "The Right Promethean Fire"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

19. "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you."

Bert Leston Taylor, "The So-Called Human Race"

20. "First Law of Cooking: A Hot pot looks exactly the same as a cold pot."

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21. "Friends are sometimes boring, but enemies - never."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

22. "Yes, pride is a perpetual nagging temptation. Keep on knocking it on the head but don't be too worried about it. As long as one knows one is proud, one is safe from the worst form of pride."

Clive Staples Lewis, letter to Mrs. Sonia Graham

23. "Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."

Tom Robbins

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

24. "Lost illusions are truths discovered."

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Quotations about: Truth and Falsity -:- Reality and Imagination

25. "Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision."

Helen Keller

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

26. "The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events."

John Kenneth Galbraith

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

27. "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."

Elie Wiesel

Quotations about: Love

28. "There is the known and there is the unknown. In between are The Doors."

Jim Morrison

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

29. "Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures."

M.F.K. Fisher, "Vin et Fromage"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

30. "Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty."

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

Quotations about: Authority, Government

31. "Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow."

Roy Hattersley

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

32. "Film music is like small lamp that you place below the screen to warm it."

Aaron Copland

Quotations about: Art and Culture

33. "There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

Bill Bryson, "The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America"

Quotations about: Youth and Age

34. "Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame."

Benjamin Franklin

Quotations about: Anger

35. "True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Human

36. "A line is a dot that goes for a walk."

Paul Klee

Quotations about: Art and Culture

37. "Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up, Notebook E"

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

38. "What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Art and Antiquity"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

39. "An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."

Henry Ford

Quotations about: Richness and Money

40. "Gravity always wins."

Dolly Parton

41. "A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year."

Polish proverb

42. "The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself."

Hannah Arendt, "On Revolution"

43. "Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quotations about: History and Nations

44. "What is genius - but the power of expressing a new individuality?"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter to Mary Russell Mitford

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

45. "The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage."

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Human

46. "A weapon is an enemy even to its owner."

Turkish proverb

Quotations about: Peace and War

47. "Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love."

William Hazlitt, "The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt"

48. "English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did."

Malcolm Bradbury, "Stepping Westward"

Quotations about: History and Nations

49. "Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best."

Woody Allen

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

50. "Laughter is an instant vacation."

Milton Berle

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

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