Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
...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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Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.
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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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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
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What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.
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Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.
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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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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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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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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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The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
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All movements go too far.
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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.
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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
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Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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The people are that part of the state that does now know what it wants.
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He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.
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Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
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It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time
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There is no free lunch.
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The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.
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We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual. George F.
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing
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A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists.
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So little time, so little to do.
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Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.
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Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.
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College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students - there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks."
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Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
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I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.
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Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
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