Great Quotes #5

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All you have to do when you run out of intelligent things to say is repeat one or more of these quotes, and you’ll put them all in their place!

  • “I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.” – Mae West
  • “Always grab the reader by the throat in the first paragraph, send your thumbs into his windpipe in the second, and hold him against the wall until the tagline.” – Paul O’Neil
  • “No one really listens to anyone else. If you try it a while, you’ll see why.” – Mignon McLaughlin
  • “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice, there is.” – Chuck Reid
  • “I’m kinda jealous of the life I’m supposedly leading.” – Zach Braff
  • “No.” – Amy Carter
  • “I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
  • “Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.” – Alexandre Dumas
  • “If you believe everything you read, better not read.” – Japanese Proverb
  • “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” – Sir Francis Bacon
  • “The scientific name for an animal that doesn’t either run from its enemies or fight is lunch.” – Michael Friedman
  • “When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong – or absolutely right.” – Albert Guinon
  • “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.” – George Bernard Shaw
  • “If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.” – Bill Lyon
  • “There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goeth
  • “It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.” – Rod Serling
  • “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” – Thomas Jefferson
  • “This was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.” – Henry James
  • “Sometimes it’s harder to deprive oneself of a pain than a pleasure.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • “We think in generalities, but we live in detail.” – Alfred North Whitehead
  • “Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.” – Samuel Johnson
  • “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’, but ‘That’s funny …’” – Isaac Asimov
  • Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.’” – Charles M. Schulz
  • “Take everything except yourselves seriously.” – Rudyard Kipling
  • “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to look for it.” – Henry David Thoreau
  • “All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.” – Stanislaw J. Lec
  • “A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.” – Anatole France
  • “Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” – George Bernard Shaw
  • “I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.” – Theodore Roosevelt
  • “By the time a man realizes his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.” – Charles Wadsworth
  • “Ultimately, what separates a winner from a loser is the willingness to do the unthinkable. Intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.” – Garry Kasparov
  • “My husband gave me a necklace. It’s fake. I requested fake. Maybe I’m paranoid, but in this day and age, I don’t want something around my neck that is worth more than my head.” – Rita Rudner
  • “Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.” – Jane Wagner
  • “When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • “How much easier to be critical than be correct.” – Benjamin Disraeli
  • “The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.” – Amanda Cross
  • “It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.” – Margaret Bonnano
  • “It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.” – Arthur C. Clarke
  • “There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.” – Mary Wilson Little
  • “Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” – Edgar Bergen
  • “Architecture is the art of how to waste space.” – Philip Johnson
  • “Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.” – Hector Berlioz
  • “The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.” – H. L. Mencken

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