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

Robert Orben

Quotations about: History and Nations

2. "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

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

Benjamin Disraeli, (Speech on January 24, 1860)

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

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

George Santayana

Quotations about: Good and Evil

5. "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

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

E. L. Doctorow

Quotations about: Art and Culture

7. "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

Neil Armstrong

Quotations about: Human

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

Nadine Gordimer

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

9. "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

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

Alfred North Whitehead

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Jackie Mason, (about England)

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

Archimedes

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

Françoise Sagan, "A Certain Smile"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

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

Marshall McLuhan, "Through the Vanishing Point"

16. "Rain is the best policeman."

police motto

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

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

Anon.

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

Jane Wagner

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

Denis Diderot, "Essay on Merit and Virtue"

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

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

Victor Borge

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

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21. "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

22. "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"

23. "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

24. "You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

25. "A committee is an animal with four back legs."

John le Carré, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"

26. "In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea."

John Osborne, "Tom Jones"

Quotations about: Love

27. "Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough."

Martin Amis, "Einstein's Monsters"

Quotations about: Peace and War

28. "Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."

Minna Antrim, "Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions"

29. "The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns."

Francis Picabia

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

30. "A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone."

Francis Picabia

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

31. "The one nice thing about sports is that they prove men do have emotions and are not afraid to show them."

Jane O`Reilly, "The Girl I Left Behind"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

32. "We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."

Yves Saint Laurent

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

33. "The purpose of life is to fight maturity."

Dick Werthimer

Quotations about: Youth and Age

34. "Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned."

James Baldwin, "The Price of the Ticket"

Quotations about: Human

35. "Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities."

James Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name"

Quotations about: History and Nations

36. "The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."

Horace Walpole

Quotations about: Life and Death

37. "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."

Henry Ford

Quotations about: Trust

38. "If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough."

Mario Andretti

39. "Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained."

Joseph Roux, "Meditations of a Parish Priest"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

40. "Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit."

George Santayana, "The Life of Reason"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

41. "Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character."

George Santayana, "The Life of Reason"

Quotations about: Happiness

42. "The best number for a dinner party is two - myself and a dam' good head waiter."

Nubar Gulbenkian

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

43. "Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

Henry Brooks Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams"

44. "Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies.""

Henrik Ibsen, "The Wild Duck"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

45. "Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing."

Henri-Frederic Amiel

46. "To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself."

George Orwell, "Collected Essays"

47. "Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time."

Alexander Theroux, "An Adultery"

Quotations about: Family and Loneliness

48. "Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person."

Zora Neale Hurston, "Dust Tracks on a Road"

Quotations about: Human

49. "Fanaticism is to superstition what delirium is to fever, and what rage is to anger. The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities is an enthusiast; the man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Philosophical Dictionary"

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

50. "There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress."

Joseph Addison

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

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