Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples.
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In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
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Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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California, the department store state.
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist
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I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
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Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
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A pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were.
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We were married by a reformed rabbi in Long Island. A very reformed rabbi. A Nazi.
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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
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He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
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It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office
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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
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Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
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What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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As if there were safety in stupidity alone.
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I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten
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A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
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Lawers, I suppose, were children once.
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The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book.
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Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
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A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
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When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?
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My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
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Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
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Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.
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The 100% American is 99% an idiot.
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. G.K.
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The major sin is the sin of being born.
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For the first year of marriage I had basically a bad attitude.
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The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.
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I have never hated a man enough to give his diamonds back.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals
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No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate
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No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.
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Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.
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I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
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There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce.
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. Josh Billings #1043 It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to bring the news to you.
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A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. Joseph F.
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Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard
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There are women whose infidelities are the only link they still have with their husbands.
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Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
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