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Jean de La Fontaine
Beware so long as you
Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
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Arthur Koestler
Nothing is more sad than
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
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Vikrant Parsai
There are three things most
There are three things most men love but never understand; females, girls and women.
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Jack Handey
I guess the hard thing
I guess the hard thing for a lot of people to accept is why God would allow me to go running through their yards, yelling and spinning around.
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Vikrant Parsai
The trouble with life is
The trouble with life is that by the time you know how to play the game, you are too old to make the team.
141
Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
Yale's greatness carries an urgent
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.
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Virginia
Nothing has really happened until
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
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Vikrant Parsai
Some people use language to
Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of thoughts.
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Heywood Broun
Hell is paved with great
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
27
Harold Laki
No important institution is ever
No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.
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Heywood Broun
The urge to gamble is
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
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Jack Handey
Instead of a Seeing Eye
Instead of a Seeing Eye dog, what about a gun It's cheaper than a dog, plus if you walk around shooting all the time people are going to get out of the way. Cars, too
23
Heywood Broun
The most prolific period of
The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.
27
Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
To take the measure of
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one's colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
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Virginia
On the outskirts of every
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
28
Heywood Broun
Except that right side up
Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways --and all are right! At least all will do.
27
Konrad Lorenz
It is a good morning
It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
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Heywood Broun
Men are blind in their
Men are blind in their own cause.
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Heywood Broun
Brotherhood is not just a
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
25
Jack Handey
To me, clowns aren't funny.
To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kinda scary. I've wondered where this started, and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad.
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Heywood Broun
A liberal is a man
A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
19
Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
Yale is a crucible in
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
18
Virginia
Things have dropped from me.
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street.
33
Mette Ljosland
Were it not Folly, Spider-like
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spin The Thread of present Life away to win - What? for ourselves, who know not if we shall Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in.
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