Quotes, August 2005
01. The triumph of justice is the only peace.
- Robert Ingersoll
02. Woman's at best a contradiction still.
- Alexander Pope
03. Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
- James Russel Lowell
04. 'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
- William M. Thackeray
05. One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
- Will Durant
06. I would sooner read a time-table or a catalog than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
- William Somerset Maugham
07. Faith means not wanting to know what’s true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
08. All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
- Henry Ward Beecher
09. It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
- Virgil
10. I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
- William Somerset Maugham
11. Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
- Thomas Alva Edison
12. I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
- Mark Twain
13. It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
- Charles Caleb Colton
14. Not one of the learned gentlemen who pretend that the Mosaic laws are filled with justice and intelligence, would live, for a moment, in any country where such laws were in force.
- Robert G. Ingersoll
15. A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.
- Margaret Sanger
16. If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.
- Krystal Ann Kraus
17. Take me or leave me - or, as is usually the case, both.
- Dorothy Parker
18. If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
- Lily Tomlin
19. Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
- Mae West
20. If all the women in the world were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised.
- Dorothy Parker
21. When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray.
- Madonna
22. People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
- William Somerset Maugham
23. Hos sucessus alit: possunt, quia posse videntur.
[Success nourished them; they seemed to be able, and so they were able.]
- Virgil
24. Childhood is that wonderful time when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.
- Joe Moore
25. How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
- Heroditus
26. When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.
- Rita Rudner
27. Flattery is like perfume water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw
28. There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
- Thomas Paine
29. Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
30. An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
31. Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
- Kin Hubbard
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