All Quotes
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People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.Russell Baker
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.Laurence J. Peter
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.Mark Twain
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.Sir William Osler, Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.Alexander Pope, Letter to Gay, October 6, 1727
An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.Benjamin Stolberg
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.Lord Salisbury
It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.Thomas Babington Macaulay
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.Soren Kierkegaard
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.Eric Hoffer