Robert Benchley

 "Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."

George MacDonald

"It is our best work that G-d wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity."

Rudyard Kipling

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"When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey."

Robert M. Hutchins

"Whenever I feel the urge to exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes away."

Groucho Marx

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"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Nobody will ever deprive the America people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting."

Monty Python

"Then you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest...with...a herring!"

LBJ

"Come now, let us reason together."

Douglas Adams

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

Vincent Price

“It's as much fun to scare as to be scared.”

Mark Twain

 "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."

Frank Lloyd Wright

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"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines."

Alice Walker

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"I think it pisses G-d off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it."

Graham Wallas

"The little girl had the making of a poet in her who, being told to be sure of her meaning before she spoke, said 'How can I know what I think until I see what I say?'"

Wallace Stegner

"It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any."

Edith Wharton

 

 

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"There are two ways of spreading light: to be
The candle or the mirror that reflects it."

André Gide

"What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself--and thus make yourself indispensable."

O. Henry

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"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating."

Robert Maynard Hutchins

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"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."

Émile Coué

"Every day in every way, I'm getting better and better." *

*In the original French: "Tous les jours, à tous les pointes de vue, je vais mieux en mieux."

Buzz Lightyear

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"To infinity and beyond!"

Carl Sagan

"We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous."

Theodore Roosevelt

"One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called 'weasel words.' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a 'weasel word' after another there is nothing left of the other."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked."

Rita Dove

"You start out with one thing, end
up with another, and nothing's
like it used to be, not even the future."

Lewis Carroll

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"'A slow sort of country!' said the Queen. 'Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.'"

Jane Ellice Hopkins

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"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."

William James

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"My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will."

Samuel Butler

"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."

Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."

George Borrow

"Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one."

Louise Erdrich

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"I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms."