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1. "The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million."

Arthur Koestler, "Darkness at Noon"

Quotations about: Human

2. "The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance."

Herman Melville, "Mardi"

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

3. "If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be-not understood, but divined."

Rémy De Gourmont, "Selected Writings"

4. "If God lived on earth, people would break his windows."

Jewish proverb

Quotations about: God and Religion

5. "The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down."

Flip Wilson

Quotations about: Life and Death

6. "The road to hell is paved with adverbs."

Stephen King

Quotations about: Good and Evil

7. "Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing."

Dave Barry

8. "Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow."

Arthur Stringer

9. "Criticism is prejudice made plausible."

Henry Louis Mencken

10. "I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."

Thomas Jefferson

Quotations about: Happiness

11. "Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century."

Marshall McLuhan

Quotations about: Art and Culture

12. "You cannot have both truth and what you call civilization."

Iris Murdoch, "A Severed Head"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

13. "Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor."

Arnold Toynbee

Quotations about: History and Nations

14. "Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

Kurt Vonnegut

Quotations about: Human

15. "I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts."

Bethania McKenstry

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

16. "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

George Bernard Shaw

17. "Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel."

Oscar Levant

Quotations about: Success and Fame

18. "To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent."

Robert Copeland

19. "Bureacracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."

Mary McCarthy, "On the Contrary"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

20. "New York will be a great place when they finish it."

local saying

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21. "Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "Notes on the Novel"

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

22. "There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't."

William Least Heat-Moon, "Blue Highways: A Journey into America"

23. "Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones."

Jacques Roumain

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

24. "The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms - hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal."

James Thurber

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

25. "When you stare persistently into an abyss, the abyss also stares into you."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil"

Quotations about: Good and Evil

26. "Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual."

Angela Carter

27. "Young children step on your feet, older children step on your heart."

proverb

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

28. "The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."

George Bernard Shaw

29. "Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."

Howard Aiken

30. "Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?"

James Thurber

31. "There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing."

French proverb

32. "I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them."

Charles de Gaulle

33. "Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns."

Willem De Kooning

Quotations about: Art and Culture

34. "No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."

Elbert Green Hubbard

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

35. "Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest"

Quotations about: Destiny and Fate

36. "I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true."

Truman Capote

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

37. "A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it."

Nora Ephron, "Scribble Scrabble"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

38. "The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo."

Desmond Morris, "The Human Zoo"

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

39. "To be great is to be misunderstood."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays, First Series"

Quotations about: Success and Fame

40. "It is better to be a has-been than a never-was."

C. Northcote Parkinson

41. "Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything."

Don Marquis, "The Rare Don Marquis"

42. "Necessity has the face of a dog."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "In Evil Hour"

43. "Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved."

Peter Ustinov

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

44. "Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case."

William James

Quotations about: God and Religion

45. "Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast."

Angela Carter, "Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

46. "Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind."

Mikhail Gorbachev

47. "Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, "Leaves from a Notebook"

48. "Black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love."

Turkish proverb

49. "Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian."

Robert Orben

Quotations about: History and Nations

50. "To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking."

William James, "The Letters of William James"

Quotations about: Science and Technology

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