Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand Russell
I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
Josh Billings
There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
John F. Kennedy
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne
When we think we lead we are most led.
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Franklin P. Adams
With just enough of learning to misquote.
There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
Ernest Hemingway
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
Christopher Morley
It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
Vincent Van Gogh
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.
Ryan Tedder
Somehow, the greater the public opposition to the health care bill, the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best, and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.
Scott Brown
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
Malcolm Fraser
I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.
Oliver Platt
Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.
Tim Allen
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
Oliver Cromwell
Well, we played with Soul Coughing once for like two days, that was pretty cool. I mean they were all good, you can pull a great experience from everything.
Mike Lowry
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
Paul Engle
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Edmund Burke
Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.
Maria Sharapova
People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
Fiona Shaw
My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.
Douglass North
You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.
Tom Hanks
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
Lord Chesterfield
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.
Dick Schaap
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