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1. "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

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

Tom Robbins

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

3. "Lost illusions are truths discovered."

Anon.

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

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

Helen Keller

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Elie Wiesel

Quotations about: Love

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

Jim Morrison

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

8. "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

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

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

Quotations about: Authority, Government

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

Roy Hattersley

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

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

Aaron Copland

Quotations about: Art and Culture

12. "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

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

Benjamin Franklin

Quotations about: Anger

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

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Human

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

Paul Klee

Quotations about: Art and Culture

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

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

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Art and Antiquity"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

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

Henry Ford

Quotations about: Richness and Money

19. "Gravity always wins."

Dolly Parton

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

Polish proverb

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

Hannah Arendt, "On Revolution"

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Quotations about: History and Nations

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter to Mary Russell Mitford

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

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

Henry David Thoreau

Quotations about: Human

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

Turkish proverb

Quotations about: Peace and War

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

William Hazlitt, "The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt"

27. "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

28. "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

29. "Laughter is an instant vacation."

Milton Berle

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

30. "God made the country, and man made the town."

William Cowper

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

31. "We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."

John W. Gardner

Quotations about: Question and Problem

32. "We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Quotations about: Human

33. "Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Human

34. "Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital."

Aaron Levenstein

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

35. "Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Love -:- Manners and Ethics

36. "The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse."

Henry David Thoreau, "Journals"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

37. "Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last."

Charles de Gaulle

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

38. "The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."

John Kenneth Galbraith

Quotations about: Richness and Money

39. "Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption."

André Bazin, "What is Cinema?"

Quotations about: Art and Culture -:- Time and Passing

40. "There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you."

Maya Angelou

Quotations about: Life and Death

41. "Sex is the thing that takes the least time and causes the most trouble."

John Barrymore

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

42. "God created Adam and Eve - not Adam and Steve."

Anon.

Quotations about: Human -:- Manners and Ethics

43. "Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Torquato Tasso"

Quotations about: Human -:- Talent and Genius

44. "A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

45. "A bartender is just a chemist with a limited inventory."

Anon.

46. "A Camel is a horse designed by a committee."

Anon.

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

47. "Thoughts too deep to be expressed. And too strong to be suppressed."

George Wither, "Mistress of Philarete"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

48. "Our virtues and failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."

Nikola Tesla, (attributed)

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- Human

49. "The best way out is always through."

Robert Lee Frost

50. "I speak others' minds only to speak my own the more."

Michel de Montaigne, "Essays"

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

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