Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.
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If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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The classes that wash most are those that work least. G.K.
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I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
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Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in hell
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Death: To stop sinning suddenly.
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Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
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If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.
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Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
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The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence
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Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. G.K.
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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
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The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. W.
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If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
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It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
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The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
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I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
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Reason should direct and appetite obey.
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When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite.
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I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.
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Religions change; beer and wine remain.
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I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries
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Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
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I hate quotations.
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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
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Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
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Man is what he believes.
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Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself
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Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you
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Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?
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