It is a mistake to… Marcel Proust
It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as a choice exists, it can only be bad.
Marcel Proust
French novelist (1871 - 1922)
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If you are ruled by… Cato
If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
Cato, Roman statesman and historian
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How wonderful opera… Gioacchino Rosini
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
Gioacchino Rosini
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“My religion… Albert Einstein
“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)
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The quickest way of… George Orwell
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, “Second Thoughts on James Burnham”
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)
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Romance is the… Elinor Glyn
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Elinor Glyn
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What luck for… Adolf Hitler
What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler
German Nazi dictator, orator, & politician (1889 - 1945)
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What sane person… Ursula K. LeGuin
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Ursula K. LeGuin
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Romance should… Oscar Wilde
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
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“My life is a… Albert Einstein
“My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.
Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)
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In archaeology you… Thomas Pickering
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
Thomas Pickering
US diplomat (1931 - )
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Sanity is a cozy… Susan Sontag
Sanity is a cozy lie.
Susan Sontag
US author & critic (1933 - )
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I propose getting… Idi Amin
I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that would be distributed equally throughout the world.
Idi Amin
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Every gun that is… Dwight Eisenhower
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
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Almost all… Logan Pearsall Smith
Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
Logan Pearsall Smith
(1865 - 1946)
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Usenet is… David Fiedler
Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best—or worst, depending on what is posted on any particular day.
David Fiedler, in _Byte_
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The only difference… Oscar Levant
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Oscar Levant
(1906 - 1972)
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It was wonderful to… Mark Twain
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)
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No doubt Jack the… A.A. Milne
No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A.A. Milne
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Reading musses up… Henry Ford
Reading musses up my mind.
Henry Ford
US automobile industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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Asking a working… Christopher Hampton
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton
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Military… Groucho Marx
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Groucho Marx
US comedian with Marx Brothers (1890 - 1977)
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Under democracy one… H. L. Mencken
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)
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Power is the… Elizabeth Janeway
Power is the ability not to have to please.
Elizabeth Janeway
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When men are pure,… Benjamin Disraeli
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Benjamin Disraeli
British politician (1804 - 1881)
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Justice is… J. Edgar Hoover
Justice is incedental to law and order.
J. Edgar Hoover
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No statue has ever… Jean Sibelius
No statue has ever been put up to a critic.
Jean Sibelius
Finnish composer & patriot (1865 - 1957)
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Oscar Wilde: “I… Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde: “I wish I had said that.” Whistler: “You will, Oscar; you will.
Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
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Democracy means… Clement Atlee
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Clement Atlee
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One should only see… Muriel Spark
One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.
Muriel Spark
British author (1918 - )
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Every law is an… Jeremy Bentham
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Jeremy Bentham
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The more I study… Sir Richard F. Burton
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself
Sir Richard F. Burton
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Psychoanalysis is… Karl Kraus
Psychoanalysis is that mental illnes for which it regards itself a therapy.
Karl Kraus
Austrian author and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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Duct tape is like… Carl Zwanzig
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together …
Carl Zwanzig
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It was such a… W. Somerset Maugham
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
W. Somerset Maugham
English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)
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I prefer liberty to… Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
English letter author & poet (1689 - 1762)
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A man always… H. L. Mencken
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)
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What torture, this… Karl Kraus
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.
Karl Kraus
Austrian author and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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Psychiatry is the… Unknown
Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
Unknown
Quotations by unknown authors
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If you choose not… Jim Zelenka
If you choose not to live in a cluster, uh, dorm…
Jim Zelenka
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Perhaps in time the… Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
(1742 - 1799)
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The First Lady is… Lady Bird Johnson
The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person — her husband.
Lady Bird Johnson
US wife of Lyndon Johnson 1934 (1912 - )
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It takes a woman… Helen Rowland
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.
Helen Rowland
(1876 - 1950)
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When she was a… Tom Robbins
When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.
Tom Robbins
US novelist (1936 - )
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Dying is easy…. Actor Edmund Gwenn
Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult.
Actor Edmund Gwenn
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Sometimes it is… Lin Yutang
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
Lin Yutang
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Criminal: A person… Howard Scott
Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Howard Scott
(1926 - )
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They say that women… Clare Booth Luce
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Clare Booth Luce
US diplomat, dramatist, journalist, & politician (1903 - 1987)
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A man ought to be… George Bernard Shaw
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)
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Aliter catuli longe… Plautus
Aliter catuli longe olent, aliter sues. (”Puppies and pigs have a very different smell.”)
Plautus
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