It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
      Winston Churchill

I hate quotations.
      Ralph Waldo Emerson

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
      Thomas Fuller

It is a great nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
      W. Somerset Maugham

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
      Mark Twain

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
      Edward Gibbon

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
      Voltaire

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
      Samuel Johnson

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
      A.H. Weiler

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
      Will Rogers

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
      Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as Sherlock Holmes

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
      Benjamin Disraeli

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
      Alice Roosevelt Longworth

All right, I will learn to read, but when I have learned, I never, never shall.
      British novelist David Garnett at age 4, to his mother

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.
      Bertrand Russell

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
      Jean Cocteau

Either this wallpaper goes or I do.
      Purported last words of Oscar Wilde

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
      H.L. Mencken

Go, and never darken my towels again.
      Groucho Marx

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
      Jorge Luis Borges

No man would listen to you if he didn't know it was his turn next.
      Ed Howe

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
      G.K. Chesterton

Don't be humble. You're not that great.
      Golda Meir

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
      Sigmund Freud

Any new venture goes through the following stages: Enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing.

The enemy came. He was beaten. I am tired. Goodnight.
      Message sent by Vicomte Turenne after the battle of Dunen, 1658

Shut up he explained.
      Ring Lardner

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
      Samuel Butler

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
      Claude Adrien Helvetius

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with a rainy Sunday afternoon.
      Susan Ertz

He who would do some great things in this short life must apply himself to work with such concentration of force such that, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, it looks like insanity.
      Francis Parkman

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing, and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
      Thomas De Quincey

Recipe (in its entirety) for boiled owl: Take feathers off. Clean owl and put it cooking pot with lots of water. Add salt to taste.
      The Eskimo Cookbook

One man with courage makes it a majority.
      Andrew Jackson

Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult.
      Actor Edmond Gwenn, on his deathbed

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
      Charles Lamb

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
      Mark Russell

Only the educated are free.
      Epictetus

Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.
      Lady Violet Bonham Carter

Do not make loon soup.
      The Eskimo Cookbook

Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time.
      Albert Einstein

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
      Robert Graves

You can't use tact with a Congressman. A Congressman is a hog. You must take a stick and hit him on the snout.
      Henry Adams

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
      Mark Twain

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established intuitions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
      Bertrand Russell

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