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1. "The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people on New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?"

Judith Martin (Miss Manners), "Miss Manners Guide to Excruciatingly ..."

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

2. "Meteorology has ever been an apple of contention, as if the violent commotions of the atmosphere induced a sympathetic effect on the minds of those who have attempted to study them."

Joseph Henry

Quotations about: Science and Technology

3. "The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums."

Peter De Vries

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

4. "I'm optimistic about the future, but not about the future of this civilization. I'm optimistic about the civilization which will replace this one."

James Baldwin

Quotations about: Human

5. "The girl who can't dance says the band can't play."

Jewish proverb

6. "Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."

Norman Vincent Peale

7. "There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up."

Rex Stout, "Death Of A Doxy"

Quotations about: Science and Technology -:- Truth and Falsity

8. "Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there."

Mickey Friedman

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

9. "It's not down on any map. True places never are."

Herman Melville

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

10. "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."

John Steinbeck, "Travels With Charley: In Search of America"

Quotations about: Marriage

11. "The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it."

Carlo Goldoni, "Pamela"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

12. "All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

Carl Sagan

Quotations about: Science and Technology -:- Knowledge, Ignorance

13. "A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, (speech at Greenville, N.C., Feb 8, 1963)

Quotations about: History and Nations -:- Life and Death

14. "The most important thing about having goals is having one."

Geoffrey F. Abert

Quotations about: Success and Fame

15. "A Terrorist is a man with a bomb but no aircraft to drop it from."

Anon.

Quotations about: Peace and War -:- Good and Evil

16. "Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream."

Iris Murdoch, "The Message to the Planet"

Quotations about: Human

17. "Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Journals"

18. "If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it."

Art Buchwald (b. 1925), U.S. humorist

Quotations about: Authority, Government

19. "Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."

Coco Chanel, "Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

20. "To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other."

Jack Handey

Quotations about: Art and Culture

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21. "Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger."

Louis Leo Holtz

Quotations about: Question and Problem

22. "Toilet paper too thin, newspapers too fat."

Winston Churchill, (on America)

Quotations about: History and Nations

23. "To eat is to appropriate by destruction."

Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness"

24. "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."

Ogden Nash

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

25. "Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind."

William Golding, "Pincher Martin"

26. "Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich."

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, "Maxims and Considerations"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics -:- Richness and Money

27. "I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."

Walt Disney

Quotations about: Woman and Man

28. "Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things."

Jean Baudrillard, "Cool Memories"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

29. "Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures."

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, "Maxims and Considerations"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

30. "Orgies are an early form of what will someday become sex by committee."

Mason Cooley

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

31. "The world is a cow that is hard to milk [...]"

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

32. "When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."

Ann Landers

Quotations about: Question and Problem

33. "Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother."

Ken Dodd

Quotations about: Marriage

34. "Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic."

Christina Stead

Quotations about: Human

35. "Measure others' greatness not by the position they hold but by their ability to treat it with reserve."

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Human -:- Success and Fame

36. "Stop following someone else's path, find your own."

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Human -:- Life and Death

37. "Quality is never an accident. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives."

Willa A. Foster

38. "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

Umberto Eco

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement -:- Truth and Falsity

39. "No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up."

Lily Tomlin

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

40. "The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own."

Willa Cather, "The Professor's House"

Quotations about: Human

41. "Valor is common but great souls are rare."

Bernard Joseph Saurin, "Spartacus"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

42. "Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

43. "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

William James

44. "We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us."

George Eliot

45. "The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them."

Will Rogers

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

46. "The darkest hour is just before the dawn."

proverb

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

47. "If words were invented to conceal thought, I think that newspapers are a great improvement on a bad invention."

Henry David Thoreau, "The Writings of Henry David Thoreau"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

48. "One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."

Kurt Vonnegut

49. "There exist only three respectable beings: the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create."

Charles Baudelaire, "My Heart Laid Bare"

Quotations about: Happiness

50. "Where there is great love there are always miracles."

Willa Cather, "Death Comes for the Archbishop"

Quotations about: Love

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