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1. "A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."

Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"

Quotations about: Youth and Age

2. "Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."

George Santayana, "Life of Reason"

3. "My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist by what I think [...] and I can't prevent myself from thinking."

Jean-Paul Sartre, "Nausea"

Quotations about: Human

4. "Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."

Bertrand Russell

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

5. "Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."

George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"

6. "Noise, n. A stench in the ear. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization."

Ambrose Bierce

7. "Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars."

Fred Allen

Quotations about: Success and Fame

8. "Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done."

Fred Allen

9. "The average man believes a thing first, and then searches for proof to bolster his opinion."

Elbert Green Hubbard

10. "Everybody's business is nobody's business."

Daniel Defoe, (title of his pamphlet)

11. "Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done."

William Shakespeare, "Richard II"

12. "Cause and effect are two sides of one fact."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. "On Valentine's Day even most healthful will get artificial heart. "

Lidia Jasinska

14. "Lack of ideas is a most general plagiarism."

Lidia Jasinska

15. "The first impression is a well remembered gift."

Lidia Jasinska

16. "Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one."

Elbert Green Hubbard, "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

17. "Depression is anger without enthusiasm."

Anon.

Quotations about: Anger

18. "Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. "

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

19. "A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

Henry Louis Mencken

20. "It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have."

François de La Rochefoucauld

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21. "There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Life and Death

22. "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Carl Gustav Jung

Quotations about: Human

23. "The whole damn universe has to be taken apart, brick by brick, and reconstructed."

Henry Miller

24. "If you can't appreciate it, you don't deserve it."

Anon.

25. "Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. "

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: Richness and Money

26. "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."

Elbert Green Hubbard

27. "The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."

St. Augustine of Hippo

28. "Cities are the abyss of the human species."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

29. "Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

Herbert George Wells

30. "Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."

Khalil Gibran

31. "A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain."

Robert A. Heinlein

32. "There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves."

Jane Austen, "Emma"

33. "Never confuse movement with action."

Ernest Hemingway

34. "The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it."

Guy de Maupassant

Quotations about: Life and Death

35. "Land, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

36. "The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

Blaise Pascal, "Pensées"

37. "Many clever men like you have trusted to civilisation. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?"

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

38. "Defenceless, adj. Unable to attack."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: Peace and War

39. "I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Peace and War

40. "God [...] created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution."

Graham Greene

Quotations about: God and Religion

41. "Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism."

Graham Greene

42. "Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it."

Robert A. Heinlein, "Time Enough for Love"

43. "You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result."

Mahatma Gandhi

44. "It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."

St. Augustine of Hippo

45. "Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

Mark Twain

46. "Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes."

Elbert Green Hubbard

47. "Journalism largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. "

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Father Brown Mystery Series"

48. "The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

49. "Be on the world, not of it. As a waterdrop on a lotusleaf."

Anon.

50. "I am for it, and even against it."

Lech Walesa

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