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1. "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"

2. "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

3. "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

4. "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

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

Angela Carter

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

proverb

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Howard Aiken

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

James Thurber

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

French proverb

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

Charles de Gaulle

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

Willem De Kooning

Quotations about: Art and Culture

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

Elbert Green Hubbard

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

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

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest"

Quotations about: Destiny and Fate

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

Truman Capote

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

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

Nora Ephron, "Scribble Scrabble"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

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

Desmond Morris, "The Human Zoo"

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays, First Series"

Quotations about: Success and Fame

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

C. Northcote Parkinson

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

Don Marquis, "The Rare Don Marquis"

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "In Evil Hour"

22. "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

23. "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

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

Angela Carter, "Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

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

Mikhail Gorbachev

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich, "Leaves from a Notebook"

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

Turkish proverb

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

Robert Orben

Quotations about: History and Nations

29. "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

30. "How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."

Benjamin Disraeli, (Speech on January 24, 1860)

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

31. "Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."

George Santayana

Quotations about: Good and Evil

32. "In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion."

Robert Runcie

Quotations about: God and Religion

33. "Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."

E. L. Doctorow

Quotations about: Art and Culture

34. "That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

Neil Armstrong

Quotations about: Human

35. "A desert is a place without expectation."

Nadine Gordimer

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

36. "If cooking becomes an art form rather than a means of providing a reasonable diet, then something is clearly wrong."

Tom Jaine

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

37. "Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it."

Alfred North Whitehead

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

38. "The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps."

Benjamin Disraeli

39. "This is the only country in the world where the food is more dangerous than sex."

Jackie Mason, (about England)

40. "Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth."

Archimedes

41. "Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance."

Françoise Sagan, "A Certain Smile"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

42. "Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval."

Marshall McLuhan, "Through the Vanishing Point"

43. "Rain is the best policeman."

police motto

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

44. "Cooking is just like religion. Rules don’t no more make a cook than sermons make a saint."

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45. "The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool."

Jane Wagner

46. "From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step."

Denis Diderot, "Essay on Merit and Virtue"

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

47. "Laughter is the closest distance between two people."

Victor Borge

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

48. "Englishwomen’s shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any."

Margaret Halsey, "With Malice Toward Some"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

49. "The cynic, a parasite of civilisation, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "The Revolt of the Masses"

50. "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."

John Adams

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

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