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   Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
 ~quotes about Media Journalism by Cyril Connolly

   Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
 ~famous historical quotes by Charles Reade

   Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
 ~saying on Government by Reinhold Niebuhr

   Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.
 ~famous historical quotes by Charles Frankel

   For him that stealeth a Book from this Library, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with Palsy, and all his Members blasted. Let him languish in Pain crying aloud for Mercy and let there be no sur-cease to his Agony till he sink in Dissolution. Let Bookworms gnaw his Entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his final Punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him for ever and aye.
 ~historical by Curse Against Book Stealers, Monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona

   Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats.
 ~sayings about historical by Martin H. Fischer

   My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
 ~quotes about Life by Louis Adamic

   It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
 ~famous historical quotes by H.L. Mencken

   I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it to the same shop on Myrtle Avenue run by a negro named Ed Perry. He handled the bike with kid gloves, you might say. He would always see to it that neither front nor back wheel wobbled. Often he would do a job for me without pay, because, as he put it, he never saw a man so in love with his bike as I was.
 ~saying on Bicycling by Henry Miller, My Bike and Other Friends

   Pitchers, like poets, are born not made.
 ~famous historical quotes by Cy Young

   Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable.
 ~historical by Bobby Bragan, 1963

   Now is the time to get drunk! To stop being the martyred slaves of time, to get absolutely drunk - on wine, poetry, or on virtue, as you please.
 ~sayings about historical by Charles Baudelaire, Enivrez-vous, Paris Spleen, 1869

   Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
 ~quotes about Curmudgeons by David T. Wolf

   Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
 ~famous historical quotes by Buddha

   I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
 ~saying on Poetry by Pablo Neruda, quoted in Wall Street Journal,, 14 November 1985

   Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
 ~famous historical quotes by H.L. Mencken

   Black holes result from God dividing the universe by zero.
 ~historical by Author Unknown

   Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
 ~sayings about historical by Napoleon Bonaparte

   Life in abundance comes only through great love
 ~quotes about Love Quotes by Elbert Hubbard

   Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
 ~famous historical quotes by Cyril Connolly

   We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
 ~saying on Freedom by Felix Frankfurter

   Friends can be said to fall in like with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.
 ~famous historical quotes by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

   The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
 ~historical by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   Never trust spiritual leader who cannot dance.
 ~sayings about historical by Mr. Miyagi, The Next Karate Kid, 1994

   The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.
 ~quotes about Personality by William McFee

   They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me
 ~famous historical quotes by Earvin Johnson

   Troubles are like babies. They grow bigger by nursing. When grief hits, hide it. Hiding it stifles it.
 ~saying on Relationship by

   Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker.
 ~famous historical quotes by William Green

   Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
 ~historical by James Dean

   Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
 ~sayings about historical by Alfred North Whitehead

   Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
 ~quotes about Effort by Sophia Loren

   Love is the greatest refreshment in life
 ~famous historical quotes by Pablo Picasso

   You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
 ~saying on Life by Quentin Crisp

   If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?
 ~famous historical quotes by Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

   It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
 ~historical by Buddha

   All creatures who have ever walked have wished that they might fly. With highwheelers a flesh and blood man can hitch wings to his feet.
 ~sayings about historical by Karl Kron, Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle

   There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
 ~quotes about Stress by Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

   Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto of 'Business as usual.' Well--business as usual, Mr. Ward
 ~famous historical quotes by Ayn Rand

   To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
 ~saying on Death by Samuel Butler

   One of the good things that come of a true marriage is, that there is one face on which changes come without your seeing them; or rather there is one face which you can still see the same, through all the shadows which years have gathered upon it.
 ~famous historical quotes by George MacDonald

   If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
 ~historical by Frank Lloyd Wright

   Life is half spent before we know what it is.
 ~sayings about historical by George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651

   I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats.
 ~quotes about Racism by Woody Allen, on the Ku Klux Klan

   Never say, oops. Always say, Ah, interesting.
 ~famous historical quotes by Author Unknown

   Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
 ~saying on Unknown by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
 ~famous historical quotes by Jean Cocteau

   A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing
 ~historical by Charles M Schwab

   Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
 ~sayings about historical by Author Unknown

   A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
 ~quotes about Books Reading by Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia, 1833

   The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
 ~famous historical quotes by J. Frank Dobie

   I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
 ~saying on Dogs by Author Unknown

   Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
 ~famous historical quotes by Groucho Marx

   Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
 ~historical by Author Unknown

   Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
 ~sayings about historical by Friedrich Nietzsche

   Be enthusiastic. Remember the placebo effect - 30% of medicine is showbiz.
 ~quotes about Attitude by Ronald Spark

   There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
 ~famous historical quotes by James Thurber

   Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
 ~saying on Golf by John Updike

   Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
 ~famous historical quotes by Albert Einstein

   I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
 ~historical by Mark Twain


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