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1. "I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally."
W. C. Fields
categories: Egoism -:- Good and Evil
2. "Man is the only animal crazy enough to climb a summit merely to prove he can do it."
Anon.
categories: Human -:- Normality and Madness
3. "Optimist (n) - A person who spends the last dollar to buy a new wallet."
Ambrose Bierce
categories: Optimism and Hope
4. "Temptation is the woman's weapon and the man's excuse."
Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"
categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Sin and Conscience
Anon.
categories: Manners and Ethics
6. "Pessimist: One who complains about the noise when opporuntiy knocks."
Anon.
categories: Optimism and Hope
7. "Feminists have turned the Love Boat into the Titanic."
Anon.
categories: Love -:- Woman and Man
8. "An optimist can always see the bright side of the other guy's problems."
Anon.
categories: Egoism -:- Optimism and Hope
9. "Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"
categories: Egoism -:- Manners and Ethics
10. "I hate writing. But I love having written."
Dorothy Parker
categories: Art and Culture
11. "Our pleasures are imagined, but our griefs are all real."
Anon.
categories: Anger -:- Joy and Sadness
12. "Habit is stronger than reason."
George Santayana
categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Manners and Ethics
13. "If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else."
Nikki Giovanni, "A Dialogue"
categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
14. "Even optimists have a 100% mortality rate."
Anon.
categories: Life and Death -:- Optimism and Hope
15. "An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Notebook M, The Crack-Up"
categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Wisdom and Stupidity
16. "An expert is someone who guesses right more often than you do."
Anon.
categories: Knowledge, Ignorance
17. "Politicians and Diapers should be changed often, and for the same reason."
Anon.
categories: Politics and Diplomacy
18. "All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, (letter to his daughter Frances)
categories: Art and Culture
19. "Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional."
Anon.
categories: Youth and Age
20. "All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife."
Daniel Boone
categories: Happiness
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21. "A man may walk intellectually among the stars and grovel morally among the swine."
John A. O'Brien
categories: Manners and Ethics
22. "The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman."
Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"
categories: Woman and Man
23. "Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
categories: Manners and Ethics -:- Sin and Conscience
24. "The only people to profit from the mistakes of others are biographers."
Anon.
categories: Defeates and Mistakes
25. "Great artists do not copy what they see, but what they desire."
Théophile Gautier, "The Golden Fleece"
categories: Art and Culture
26. "Friends come and go but enemies accumulate."
Anon.
categories: Friendship and Hostility
27. "Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind."
Marston Bates
categories: Science and Technology
28. "Equality may perhaps be a right, but it will never be a reality."
Anon.
categories: Justice
29. "Most of life's shadows result from standing in your own light."
Anon.
categories: Egoism
30. "Two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason."
Blaise Pascal, "Pensees"
categories: Intellect, Judgement
31. "Jealousy is the injured lover's hell."
Anon.
categories: Envy
32. "Stardom can be a gilded slavery."
Helen Hayes, "On Reflection"
categories: Freedom and Servitude -:- Success and Fame
33. "History doesn't repeat itself - historians merely repeat each other."
Anon.
categories: History and Nations
34. "If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Art and Antiquity"
categories: History and Nations
35. "Happy is the nation without a history."
Cesare Beccaria, "On Crimes and Punishments"
categories: Happiness -:- History and Nations
36. "The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another."
Anon.
categories: Science and Technology
37. "Character is what you are in the dark."
Dwight L. Moody
categories: Human
38. "With all this darkness round me I feel less alone."
Samuel Beckett, "Krapp`s Last Tape"
categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Joy and Sadness
39. "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants."
Newton Isaac
categories: Talent and Genius
40. "To understand someone, find out how he spends his money."
Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"
categories: Human -:- Richness and Money
41. "Be cautious about lending money to friends. You might lose both."
Anon.
categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Richness and Money
Gerald Branan, "Thoughts in a Dry Season: A Miscellany"
George VI, (Radio broadcast, September 23, 1940)
Mark Twain
categories: Life and Death -:- Various
45. "Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion."
Richard John Neuhaus
categories: God and Religion
46. "Wealthy criminals are the only refuge for morally bankrupt attorneys."
Johnny Cochran
categories: Law and Crime -:- Richness and Money
47. "Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man."
Jean Genet, "Notes for The Screens"
categories: Human -:- Law and Crime
48. "Any soldier worth his salt should be anti-war. And yet there are things still worth fighting for."
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
categories: Peace and War
49. "Radical: Anyone whose opinion differs from ours."
Anon.
categories: Various
50. "Obstacles are what a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."
Henry Ford
categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Question and Problem
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