Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
I knew her before she was a virgin.
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What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
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Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
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People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
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The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
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He was a wise man who invented God.
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Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize." George Bernard Shaw #0597 To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
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We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby." W.
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I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
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(Of Jesus): ""A parish demogogue.
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Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.
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What a time! What a civilization!
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The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.
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Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.
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Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.
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The less government we have the better.
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Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
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Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
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Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.
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There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.
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There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
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