Miscellaneous
I couldn't really think how to categorize these quotes. Any ideas let me know :)
"What’s madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?" --Theodore Roethke
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." --Samuel Goldwyn
"A custom loathsome to the eyes, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain and dangerous to the lungs." --King James on smoking (1620)
"The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand."--Frederick L. Knowles
"I hate quotations."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I'm bored."--Last words spoken by Gabriele D'Annunzo
"When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."--Anatole France
"I don't know."--Last words spoken by Peter Abeland
"An ego trip is something that never gets you anywhere." -- Suzan L. Wiener
"Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve." --unknown
"A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern." --Edgar A. Shoaff
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." --Winston Churchill
"Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion." --Robert Burton
"Oppurtunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them." --William Arthur Ward
"Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute." --Jonathan Kellerman
"People used to live lives of quiet desperation- now they go on talk shows." --Bob Thaves
"Modesty is the proof that morality is sexy." --Wendy Shalit
"It is much easier to be critical than correct." -- Benjamin Disraeli
"Vision is the art of seeing the invisible." --Jonathan Swift
"A danger foreseen is half avoided." --Thomas Fuller
"Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex." -- Oscar Wilde
"We are all worms, but I believe I am a glowworm." -- Winston Churchill
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live." -- Oscar Wilde
"The Earth is like a tiny grain of sand, only much, much, heavier." --unknown
"I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University."-- William F. Buckley, Jr.
"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology." -- Thomas Jefferson
"Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves." -- Dorothy Parker
"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements." -- Norman Douglas
"We are often most in the dark when we are the most certain, and most enligthened when we are the most confused." -- M. S. Peck
"Always do what you are afraid to do." -- Emerson
"I like only two kinds of men; domestic and foreign." --Mae West
"When women go wrong, men go right after them." --Mae West
"The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him." --Immanuel Kant
"The internal qualities once said to embody manhood- sure footedness, inner strength, confidence of purpose- are merchandised to men to enhance their manliness. What passes for masculinity is being extracted and sold back to men. Literally in the case of Viagra." --Susan Faludi
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