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Cool
Quotes Vol.2
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- Television
brings the average
person more news than he wants to hear, more weather than he can do
anything
about and more sports than he has crackers and cheese to watch.
~William
Cannon.
- A desk
is a dangerous place from which to view the world. ~John le Carre.
- If eyes
were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
~Emerson.
- There
is
no greater burden than
great potential. ~Charles M. Schulz.
- Some
people pay a compliment
as if they expected a receipt. ~Kin Hubbard.
- Cynicism
is an unpleasant way
of saying the truth. ~Lillian Hellman (The Little Foxes).
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Habits of
close attention, thinking heads,
Become more rare as dissipation spreads,
Till authors hear at length one general cry
Tickle and entertain us, or we die!
—Cowper.
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- Nobody
will ever win the battle
of the sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy. ~Henry
Kissinger.
- Vagueness
and procrastination
are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit. ~John Updike (In the Beauty
or the Lilies).
- If you
are
too careful, you
are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over
something.
~Gertrude Stein.
- An act
of
justice closes the
book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own. ~Marilyn
Vos Savant in Parade.
- The
game
of life is a lot like
football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score
your points when you get the opportunity. ~Lewis Grizzard.
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They used
to have a farming rule
Of forty acres and a mule.
Results were won by later men
With forty square feet and a hen.
And nowadays success we see
With forty inches and a bee.
—Wasp.
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Childhood
has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories
of outlived sorrow.
—George
Eliot.
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| "The path
of civilization is paved with tin cans."—The Philistine. |
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| If dirt
was trumps, what hands you would hold!—Charles Lamb.
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