Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.
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A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation to which the filing system has been lost?
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Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
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How can one conceive of a one party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. G.K.
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I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.
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Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.
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The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
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Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill all and you are a God. Jean Rostand #0301 Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.
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The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
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New York: A third-rate Babylon
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Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.
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The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy."
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Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
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I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.
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Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
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We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable."
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The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient
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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.
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Wife: a former sweetheart
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Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses
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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
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Grief is a species of idleness.
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My Lord, my Lord! What hast Thou done, lately?
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I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere.
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Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
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The wicked at heart probably know something.
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Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving?
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It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.
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Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again."
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Grub first, then ethics.
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Communism is like one big phone company.
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Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
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