History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. ~Voltaire
She was part of that generation who grew up during the Depression. But the Depression to her was like a trip to Six Flags. ~David Chase, The Sopranos, "The Sopranos," original airdate 10 January 1999, spoken by the character Tony Soprano
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. ~Luke 2:13-14
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers... ~Heinrich Hertz
How many things are there which I do not want. ~Socrates
Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance. ~Peter Saint James
War. The dark time of valour, loss and hope where a man is controlled by his gun; where a gun is controlled by his hatred. Completely uncontrollable. ~Daniel Ha
Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals. ~John Dewey, Characters and Events
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. ~Harper Lee
Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money. ~Satchel Paige
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. ~Edward Abbey
What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. ~Josephine Hart
While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our config.sys settings. ~Dave Barry
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Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. ~H. Jackson Browne
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. ~Robert Byrne
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. ~George Orwell, Animal Farm
Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. ~William Arthur Ward
If you think it's tough being a firefighter, try being a firefighter's wife. ~Author Unknown
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. ~Christopher Morley
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ~James Bryce
If a healthy minded person takes an interest in science, he gets busy with his mathematics and haunts the laboratory. ~W.S. Franklin
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
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