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1. "Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food."

Robert M. Pirsig

Quotations about: God and Religion

2. "Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

Clive Staples Lewis

Quotations about: Destiny and Fate

3. "Some people feel the rain, Others just get wet."

Bob Marley

4. "In the beginning, God made the Heaven and Earth. The rest was Made in China."

Anon.

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

5. "A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn."

Anon.

6. "Don't dwell on who let you down, cherish those who hold you up."

Anon.

7. "I will let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him."

Booker T. Washington

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

8. "Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

9. "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Human

10. "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

Marcel Proust

11. "Aphorism - a grain of wisdom in the shell of words."

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Quotations about: Art and Culture

12. "Aphorism is a phrase that, after removal of context, retains all its meaning, and even gaining a new one."

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Quotations about: Art and Culture

13. "Journalists are pleasant people who ask unpleasant questions."

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14. "Who says what he should, does not say what he thinks."

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Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

15. "Hell is different from purgatory - just a lack of exit doors."

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Quotations about: Pain and Tears

16. "Virtual reality is to the real world as preservatives to the food."

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Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

17. "The weakness of psychiatry is that the doctor considers himself to be healthier than the patient."

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Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

18. "Gray is a cover, which hides the colors."

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Quotations about: Nature and Animals

19. "Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

20. "Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo."

Al Gore

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21. "Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

22. "Man is not the creature of circumstance. Circumstances are the creatures of men."

Benjamin Disraeli

Quotations about: Human

23. "Balance your thoughts with action. If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."

Bruce Lee

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

24. "Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return."

Nicolas Boileau

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

25. "To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance."

Jean Genet, "The Thief's Journal"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

26. "It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them. The walls of London may be battered, but the spirit of the Londoner stands resolute and undismayed."

George VI, (Radio broadcast, September 23, 1940)

Quotations about: Human

27. "I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable."

Mark Twain

Quotations about: Life and Death

28. "Radical: Anyone whose opinion differs from ours."

Anon.

29. "The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Art and Antiquity"

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

Anon.

31. "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

32. "Responsibility is the price of greatness."

Winston Churchill

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

33. "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

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

Philip Guedalla

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

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

Terence, "Eunuchus"

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

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

William Hazlitt, "Sketches and Essays"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

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

Anon.

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

Anon.

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

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

Anon.

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne, "English Notebooks"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

41. "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

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

Anon.

43. "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

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

Anon.

45. "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

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

Chinese proverb

47. "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

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

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

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

Anon.

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

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

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