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"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."

William Shakespeare

I dare you to just start making quotes up

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Nice one:beer1:

"In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri."

Douglas Adams

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"I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy."

Marilyn Monroe

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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)


Nice one...

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"The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no realities in themselves, but they are like heat haze."

Buddha

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"In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that."

Rowan Williams

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"To know that you do not know is the best.
To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease."

Lao-tzu

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"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."

Anton Chekhov

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"Absence, that common cure of love."

Miguel de Cervantes

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"Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart."

Kay Knudsen

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I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Buzz Aldrin
US astronaut (1930 - )

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"Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust."

Grover Cleveland

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams (1735 - 1826), Journal, 1772

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"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."

Aristotle

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Errr... I mean...

"Our utmost efforts could not produce more than three miles for the whole march."

Robert Falcon Scott

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Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.

The Residents "Duck Stab":Bach is Dead

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"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."


Cato the Elder

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"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind."

Joseph Heller

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), "The Crack-Up" (1936)

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"My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous"

Bible

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"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure."


Thorstein Veblen

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"A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor liess, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman."

George Bernard Shaw

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"The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep."
Laurence J. Peter

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"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves."


Bertrand de Jouvenal

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George Carlin (1937 - )

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Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, that's what we're needing! We've needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine o'clock.

Kurt Tucholsky - German journalist, satirist and writer

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"This morning, shortly after 11 o’clock, comedy struck this little house in Dibbley road. Sudden, violent comedy."

Monty Python

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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks (1926 - )

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"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other b... die for his."

General George Patton

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His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.

Mae West (1892 - 1980)

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"The trees of the Lord are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted; / Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house."

Bible

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At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)

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“ I would like people to live at ease, with all that is available on the outside. Don't be in a hurry, because anything left unlived will pull you back again. Finish it. And then there is no need to escape from your house or from your bank account, because they are no longer a burden on you. Perhaps they have a certain utility, but nothing is wrong with them.”


Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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"In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true."

Buddha

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

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"O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,
As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple."

William Shakespeare

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HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe. _House of Correction_, a place of reward for political and personal service, and for the detention of offenders and appropriations. _House of God_, a building with a steeple and a mortgage on it. _House-dog_, a pestilent beast kept on domestic premises to insult persons passing by and appal the hardy visitor. _House-maid_, a youngerly person of the opposing sex employed to be variously disagreeable and ingeniously unclean in the station in which it has pleased God to place her.

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary

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"A mans face is his autobiography. A women's face is her work of fiction."

Oscar Wilde

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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

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"This isn't right. This isn't even wrong."

Wolfgang Pauli

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"There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them."

George Orwell