Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican
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Tell us your phobias, and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
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A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.
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I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
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I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about.
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Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists
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The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife.
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One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.
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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense. Thomas H.
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We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. H. G.
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Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.
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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging?
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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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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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The classes that wash most are those that work least. G.K.
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Death: To stop sinning suddenly.
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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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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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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
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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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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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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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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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Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. G.K.
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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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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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The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
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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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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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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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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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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 charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.
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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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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 was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. W.
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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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