All Quotes
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince", 1943
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.W. Somerset Maugham
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.Evelyn Waugh, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.Abraham Lincoln
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.e e cummings
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.Albert Camus
A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.Roald Dahl, (Willy Wonka) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.Robert Anton Wilson