Random Quotes
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.Henry Fielding
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.W. H. Auden
I find nothing more depressing than optimism.Paul Fussell
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.Ogden Nash
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts"
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.George Bernard Shaw
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.Sinclair Lewis
There are more fools in the world than there are people.Heinrich Heine
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.Sir Ralph Richardson, quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.William James