Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands
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He who has never hoped can never despair.
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Order, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
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There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
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A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?
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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.
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A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
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O why was I born with a different face?
Why was I not born like rest of my race?
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If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thomas A.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
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The world belongs to the energetic.
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Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
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Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them
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The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.
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I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.
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Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia
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Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.
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When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.
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An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.
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Congress consists of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less, idiots; and three thirds, more or less, poltroons
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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
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Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain.
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You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.
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It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
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The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.
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The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents. G.K.
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Who could follow Carson? Well, believe me, somebody can - and will.
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
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No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman.
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The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
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Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated
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Coincidences are spiritual puns. G.K.
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