Dorothy Parker
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Stephen King
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Mark Twain
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Woody Allen
Don't knock masturbation; it's sex with someone I love.
Oscar Wilde
No man should have a secret from his wife; she invariably finds out.
Marcel Proust
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Aristotle
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
Eleanor Roosevelt
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
Leo Tolstoy
Until you do what you believe in, how do you know whether you believe in it or not?
Euripides
It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
Alexis de Tocqueville
The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.
Henry Kissinger
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
Roger Ebert
Some men would rather pursue happiness than obtain it.
Plato
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Dante Alighieri
He listens well who takes notes.
Scott Adams
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Andre Gide
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Bob Dylan
There is nothing so stable as change.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, ''The medicines of the soul.''
John F. Kennedy
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
Edith Wharton
There are two ways of spreading light -- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Dave Barry
You should do your own car repairs. It's an easy way to save money and possibly maim yourself for life.
E.B. White
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Alexandre Dumas
Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.
Ronald Reagan
The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.
Mae West
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Charles Caleb Colton
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
Thomas Jefferson
I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
Abraham Lincoln
People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Albert Einstein
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.
Bertrand Russell
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Thomas Edison
Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Laurence Peter
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
Albert Camus
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
C.S. Lewis
Badness is only spoiled goodness.
Mark Twain
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
Homer Simpson
The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!
Christina Aguilera
So where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
Steve Martin
Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
Dwight Eisenhower
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Colin Powell
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Henry Mencken
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
Nachman of Bratslav
Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.
C.S. Lewis
This moment contains all moments.
Marcus Aurelius
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself…
Thomas Paine
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by…
Aldous Huxley
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.
Harry Truman
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Ansel Adams
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.
C.S. Lewis
There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.
GK Chesterton
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
Samuel Johnson
Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.
Plato
The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.
Carl Jung
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.
GK Chesterton
Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure…
Steven Wright
I went into a restaurant and the sign said 'Breakfast anytime,'' so I ordered french toast during the Renaissance.
Marcel Proust
The only paradise is paradise lost.
Robin Williams
I'll always perform, because show business is in my blood. Or maybe it's in my feet. Wherever it is, I don't think I'll ever stop.
Jay Leno
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
Mark Twain
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Franklin Jones
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love makes the ride worthwhile.
Walt Whitman
In the faces of men and women I see God.
Marcel Proust
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Author Unknown
Sex is a three-letter word which needs some old-fashioned four-letter words to convey its full meaning.
Alfred Hitchcock
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Winston Churchill
There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.
Ambrose Bierce
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Saul Bellow
I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell…
Jack Handey
The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
Benjamin Franklin
I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Walter Lippman
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Benjamin Franklin
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
Alex Comfort
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
John Lennon
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Paul Getty
My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
William Shakespeare
To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
Elbert Hubbard
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.