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Katharine Hepburn
Plain women know more about
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
52
John Milton
If it come to prohibiting,
If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
275
Abdul Baha
Do not be content with
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path.
41
Kahlil Gibran
You give little when you
You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
14
Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too moral.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
96
Dame Rebecca West
Before a war, military science
Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.
49
D. H. Lawerence
I never saw a wild
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from the bow of a ship without ever having felt sorry for itself.
30
George S. Patton
When in doubt, observe and
When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.
84
Hannah Arendt
War has become a luxury
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
66
Paul Walter
Anyone who interprets or defines
Anyone who interprets or defines your rights controls your destiny.
17
Bertolt Brecht
The aim of science is
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
506
Dave Barry
As long as humanity has
As long as humanity has been human, it has looked toward the heavens and dreamed that some day, some way, there would be giant federal contracts involved.
119
Mae West
Virtue has its own reward,
Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.
75
Benjamin Franklin
Think what you do when
Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.
156
Bob Edwards
A little learning is a
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
18
Kurt Vonnegut
During my three years in
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
50
Anita Loos
On a plane you can
On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
91
Edmund Burke
Bad law is the worst
Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny.
53
Kurt Vonnegut
The chief weapon of sea
The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.
65
Walt Whitman
This day before dawn I
This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven.
221
Harriet Van Horne
There are days when any
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set.
41
Terry Pratchet
Geography is just physics slowed
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
18
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To sin by silence when
To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men.
155
Soren Kierkegaard
Alas! While the speculative honourable
Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 3
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