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Q1. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde

Q2. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison

Q3. Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. Brendan Gill

Q4. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson

Q5. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg

Q6. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Q7. As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent. Socrates

Q8. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde

Q9. Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. Mae West

Q10. Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Oscar Wilde

Q11. An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Gandhi

Q12. He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. Lao Tsu

Q13. Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting. Billy Rose

Q14. A rich man's joke is always funny. Proverb

Q15. Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river. Cordel Hull

Q16. When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. Dylan Thomas

Q17. I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill

Q18. Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. William Shakespeare

Q19. A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. Oscar Wilde

Q20. There are three faithful friends—an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin

Q21. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde

Q22. I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde

Q23. To cease smoking is the easiest thing. I ought to know. I've done it a thousand times. Mark Twain

Q24. Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King

Q25. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

Q26. Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. Franklin P. Jones

Q27. What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. Richard Harkness

Q28. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi

Q29. The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
Franklin P. Jones

Q30. All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should
have been more specific. Jane Wagner

Q31. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. Oscar Wilde

Q32. I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because
I hate plants. A. Whitney Brown

Q33. Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you recognise a mistake
when you make it again. F. P. Jones

Q34. "Sure, everyone always said 'Socrates what is the meaning of life?' or
'Socrates how can I find happiness?', did anyone ever say 'Socrates
hemlock is poison.'???????" Socrates right before his death

Q35. When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. - Mae West

Q36. The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is
generally employed only by small children and large nations. David Friedman

Q37. We must become the change we want to see. Gandhi

Q38. Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. W. C. Fields

Q39. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' Isaac Asimov

Q40. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King

Q41. Do just once what others say you can't do and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. James R. Cook

Q42. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
--Albert Einstein

Q43. Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
--Albert Einstein

Q44. Its not whether you get knocked down. Its whether you get up again.
-Vince Lombardi

Q45. Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Q46. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Q47. Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir

Q48. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Kierkegaard

Q49. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein

Q50. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein

Q51. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill

Q52. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei

Q53. In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. - Jan van de Snepscheut

Q54. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson

Q55. A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos

Q56. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw

Q57. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Q58. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells

Q59. Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Q60. The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown

Q61. If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill

Q62. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire

Q63. Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote

Q64. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi

Q65. All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce

Q66. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Q67. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery

Q68. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant

Q69. If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti

Q70. Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle

Q71. Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce

Q72. It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein

Q73. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

Q74. Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Q75. When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Goethe

Q76. If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
- Aristotle Onassis

Q77. I am not young enough to know everything. - Oscar Wilde

Q78. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? - Abraham Lincoln

Q79. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain

Q80. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain

Q81. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda

Q82. Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin

Q83. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. - Oscar Wilde

Q84. You must believe in free will; there is no choice. - Isaac Bashevis Singer

Q85. Be sincere; be brief; be seated. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Q86. Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Q87. From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. - Sir Winston Churchill

Q88. When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. - Abraham Lincoln

Q89. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln

Q90. A camel is a horse designed by committee. -Sir Alec Issigonis

Q91. Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. - Sir James Dewar

Q92. Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. - Danish proverb

Q93. Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

Q94. If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. - Anatole France

Q95. Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire

Q96. A jury consists of twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost

Q97. The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment. - T. H. White

Q98. It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney

Q99. What orators lack in depth they make up for in length. - Charles de Secondat

Q100. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato

Q102. Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her body. - John Vanbrugh 1696

Q103. Give a woman an inch and she thinks she's a ruler. - Anonymous

Q104. I'm the girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. - Mae West

Q105. The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. - Clarence Darrow

Q106. Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. - Hubert Humphrey

Q107. I like children. If they're properly cooked. - W. C. Fields

Q108. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. - Mae West

Q109. There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters. - Alice Thomas Ellis

Q110. All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. - Mark Twain

Q111. We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like. - Jean Cocteau

Q112. He who laughs, lasts. - Mary Pettibone Poole

Q113. Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. - Robert Neville

Q114. The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously. - Hubert Humphrey

Q115. The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell

Q116. Reality is for people who can't face drugs. - Laurence Peter

Q117. A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell. - William J. Johnston

Q118. Art is I; science is we. - Claude Bernard

Q119. Only the shallow know themselves. - Oscar Wilde

Q120. Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television. - Victoria Wood

Q121. Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf. - Will Rogers

Q122. Let's forget about the six feet and talk about the seven inches. - Mae West

Q123. When everyone's somebody, then no one's anyone. - W. S. Gilbert

Q124. A camel is a horse designed by committee. - Alec Issigonis

Q125. If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. - Katharine Hepburn

Q126. It's a recession when you neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. - Harry S Truman

Q127. You must come again when you have less time. - Walter Sickert

Q128. Friends are God's apology for relations. - Hugh Kingsmill

Q129. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. - Anthony Burgess

Q130. Work is the curse of the drinking classes. - Oscar Wilde

Q131. Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. - Albert Schweitzer

Q132. It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure why take the chance. - Ronald Regan

Q133. Death is nature's way to telling you to slow down. - Anonymous

Q134. I'm preparing to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Winston Churchill

Q135. The meaning of life is that it stops. - Franz Kafka

Q136. Retirement means twice as much husband and half as much money. - Anonymous

Q137. Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead. - James Thurber

Q138. The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. - William de Kooning

Q139. The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights. - John Paul Getty

Q140. Whenever I feel the need for exercise I go and lie down for half an hour until the feeling passes. - Will Rogers

Q141. A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. - Frederick Sawyer

Q142. A politician is an animal that can sit on a fence and keep both ears to the ground. - H. L. Mencken

Q143. The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. - Albert Einstein

Q144. A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring. - Louis Nizer

Q145. Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. - Samuel Johnson

Q146. I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - Thomas Carlyle

Q147. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. - Samuel Butler

Q148. I feel that one lies to oneself more than to anyone else. - Lord Byron

Q149. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. - Adlai Stevenson

Q150. Sin is dangerous in the hands of beginners. - Anonymous

Q151. Psychiatry: the care of the id by the odd. - Anonymous

Q152. Advertising: the rattling of a stick inside the swill bucket. - George Orwell

Q153. Diplomacy: the art of letting someone else have your way. - David Frost

Q154. Experimental Psychologist: a scientist who pulls habits out of rats. - Leonard Louis Stevenson

Q155. Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini. - Robert Benchley

Q156. I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them. - Somerset Maugham

Q157. Even paranoids have real enemies. - Delmore Schwartz

Q158. Some people pay a compliment as if they expect a receipt. - Frank McKinney Hubbard

Q159. An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. - John Buchan

Q160. Somebody's boring me, I think it's me. - Dylan Thomas

Q161. I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. - Margaret Thatcher

Q162. I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Q163. The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. - Sir George Jessel

Q164. I am a deeply superficial person. - Andy Warhol

Q165. When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before. - Mae West

Q166. I have nothing to declare except my genius. - Oscar Wilde

Q167. When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do. - Honore de Balzac

Q168. It's not only a race against the clock, it's a race against time itself. - BBC Presenter

Q169. A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. --W.C. Fields

Q170. Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. --Winston Churchill

Q171. Work is the curse of the drinking class. --Oscar Wilde

Q172. I drink to make other people interesting. --George Jean Nathan

Q173. Four legs good, two legs bad. - George Orwell

Q174. Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. - Elias Root Beadle

Q175. The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler

Q176. Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?
- George Wallace

Q177. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde

Q178. No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. - W. A. Nance

Q179. Only the suppressed word is dangerous. - Ludwig Börne

Q180. The important thing is never to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein

Q181. If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
- Woodrow Wilson

Q182. Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
- Jules de Gaultier

Q183. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana

Q184. I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones. - John Cage

Q185. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Q186. What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
- Charles de Secondat

Q187. The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.
- T. H. White

Q188. The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb

Q189. Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.
- Groucho Marx

Q190. As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. - Andrew Carnegie

Q191. Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.
- Christopher Darlington Morley

Q192. When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. - Eric Hoffer

Q193. Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain

Q194. Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

Q195. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. - Mark Twain

Q196. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first. - Mark Twain

Q197. The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. - Groucho Marx

Q198. Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Lawrence J. Peter

Q199. When I grow up I want to be a little boy. - Joseph Heller

Q200. Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. - Frank Tyger

Q201. He who laughs, lasts. - Mary Poole

Q203. Action is the last resource of those who do not know how to dream. - Oscar Wilde

Q204. Give me chastity and abstinence, O Lord, but not today. - St. Augustine

Q205. It is better to waste one's youth, than to do nothing with it at all. - Georges Courteline

Q206. I never indulge in rhyme or stanza
Unless I'm in bed with the influenza.
- Quintus Ennius

Q207. There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last. - Jules Renard

Q208. Only useless things are indespensable. - Francis Picabia

Q209. Miami Beach is where neon goes to die. - Lenny Bruce

Q210. Money costs too much. - Ross McDonald

Q211. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. - Oscar Wilde

Q212. The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. - George Bernard Shaw

Q213. Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Q214. What other people think of me is not my business. - Andrew Kudiacik

Q215. May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift

Q216. Superstition brings bad luck. - Dr. Saul Gorn

Q217. Confusion is mightier than the sword. - Abbie Hoffman

Q218. If I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? - James Thurber

Q219. I cling to my imperfection as the very essence of my being. - Anatole France

Q220. I've been on a calendar, but never on time. - Marilyn Monroe

Q221. Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it. - Tallulah Bankhead

Q222. I'm always at a loss how much to believe my own stories. - Washington Irving

Q223. I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true. - Katharine Hepburn

Q224. My life has been one long descent into respectability. - Mandy Rice Davies

Q225. Stay in your own movie. - Ken Kesey

Q226. All children are essentially criminal. - Denis Diderot

Q227. I drink to make other people interesting. - George Jean Nathan

Q228. Reality is just a crutch for people who can't deal with drugs. - Lily Tomlin

Q229. Whenever you receive a letter from a creditor write fifty lines upon some extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved. - Charles Baudelaire

Q230. The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it. - G. K. Chesterton

Q231. If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have gotten anywhere. - Marilyn Monroe.

Q232. Those who would take over the earth and shape it to their will, never, I notice succeed. - Lao Tzu

Q233. It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up. - W. Somerset Maugham

Q234. Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. - Oscar Wilde

Q235. Immortality - a fate worse than death. - Edgar A. Shoaff

Q236. The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit. - Elie Wiesel

 

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