Random Quotes
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It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.Harry S Truman
Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.Thorstein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.Andy Warhol
Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.Charlotte Whitton, Canada Month, June 1963
No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.Thorstein Veblen
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.Dame Edna Everage, In a television interview with Joan Rivers
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe