Achieving Success Quotes - BC Forbes

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“How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.”Bertie Charles Forbes (1880 – 1954) U.S. founder of Forbes magazine

Adversity Quotes - Niccolo Machiavelli

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“It is a common fault of men not to reckon on storms in fair weather.”Niccolò Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) Italian political philosopher and playwright

Funny Advertising Quotes - Scott Adams

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“Good advertising can make people buy your product even if it sucks ... A dollar spent on brainwashing is more cost-effective than a dollar spent on product improvement.”Scott Adams (b. 1957) U.S. cartoonist and business writer

Attitude - Altitude Quote - Stephen Covey

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“Your attitude determines your altitude.”Stephen Covey (b. 1932) U.S. psychologist and business author

Banker Quotes - Walter Bagehot

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“Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone.”Walter Bagehot (1826 – 77) British economist and journalist

Brands Quotes - Tony O Reilly

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“Truly great brands are far more than just labels for products; they are symbols that encapsulate the desires of consumers; they are standards that are held aloft under which the masses congregate.”Tony O'Reilly (b. 1936) Irish chairman of Independent News & Media Group and C.E.O. of Heinz Company

Committee Quotes - Jonathan Lynn

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“It is a characteristic of committee discussions and decisions that every member has a vivid recollection of them and that every member's recollection differs violently from every other member's recollection.”Jonathan Lynn (b. 1943) English actor and director

Knowledge Quotes - Samuel Johnson

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“All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.”Samuel Johnson (1709 – 84) British poet and lexicographer

Discrimination Quotes - Margaret Mead

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“We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.”Margaret Mead (1901 – 78) U.S. cultural anthropologist

Enthusiasm Quotes - Emerson

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“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 82) U.S. essayist, poet, and orator

Molehill Executives Quotes - Fred Allen

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“A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 a.m. and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.”Fred Allen (1894 – 1956) U.S. comedian and satirist

Experience Quotes - Harold Geneen

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“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.”Harold S. Geneen (1910 – 97) U.S. president and C.E.O. of ITT

Ignorance of Law Quote - Jeremy Bentham

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“Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.”Jeremy Bentham (1748 – 1832) British philosopher and social reformer

No Exercise Quotes - Mark Twain

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“I have never taken any exercise, except for sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Quotes of the Month (Mar 2007) - Taxes

Quotes of the Month (Taxes)SAY NO TO TAXES~ Breakfast in the White House ... ~Franklin D. Roosevelt: Taxes, after all, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.Andrew Jackson: The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that operates with perfect equality.James Madison: The apportionment of taxes ... is an act which seems to require the

Patriotism Quotes - John F Kennedy

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“Let every Nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend or oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty”John F. Kennedy (1917 – 63) U.S. president (quote from his inaugural speech inscribed on his memorial)

Confidence Quotes - Think - Aristotle

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“Some men are just as firmly convinced of what they think as others are of what they know.”Aristotle (384 – 322 B.C.) Greek philosopher

Quiet Conscience Quotes - Euripides

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“There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.”Euripides (480? - 406? B.C.) Greek tragedian

Verbal Contracts Quotes - Samuel Goldwyn

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“A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.”Samuel Goldwyn (1882 – 1974) U.S. motion picture producer

Delegating Quotes - Konosuke Matsushita

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“Big things and little things are my job. Middle level management can be delegated.” [read business fable]Konosuke Matsushita (1894 – 1989) Japanese founder of Matsushita Electric

Details - Quotes - Lord Chesterfield

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“I recommend you to take care of the minutes for the hours will take care of themselves.”Philip Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield (1694 – 1773) British statesman and man of letters

Trifle Details Quotes - Edward Young

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“Think naught a trifle, though it small appear;Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,And trifles life.”Edward Young (1683 – 1765) English poet

Quotes of the Month (Feb 2007) - Love

Quotes of the Month (Love) LOVE IS IN THE AIR~ You think you can remain single ... ~Richard Crashaw: I would be married to a single life.Michael Heseltine: There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten.Helen Rowland: A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.~ Until you meet your love at first sight ... ~

Power Woman Quotes - Jill Barad

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“When you apply the word power to a man, it means strong and bold – very positive attributes. When you use it to describe a woman, it suggests bitchy, insensitive, hard.”Jill Barad (b. 1951) U.S. C.E.O. of Mattel

Discrimination Quotes - Barber Conable

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“Women do two thirds of the world's work ... Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.”Barber B. Conable, Jr. (1922 - 2003) U.S. politician and president of the World Bank

Innovation Quotes - Nicholas Negroponte

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“The best way to guarantee a steady stream of new ideas is to make sure that each person in your organization is as different as possible from the others. Under these conditions, and only these conditions, will people maintain varied perspectives and demonstrate their knowledge in different ways.”Nicholas Negroponte (b. 1943) U.S. computer scientist and co-founder of MIT Media Laboratory

Intelligence Quotes - Thomas Stewart

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“Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free-floating brainpower.”Thomas A. Stewart (b. 1948) U.S. journalist and business editor

Employee Cost Quotes - Hillary Clinton

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“Too many companies, especially large ones, are driven more and more narrowly by the need to ensure that investors get good quarterly returns and to justify executives' high salaries. Too often, this means that they view most employees as costs.”Hillary Clinton (b. 1947) U.S. lawyer, politician, and first lady

Doctors Lawyers Quotes - Anton Chekhov

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“Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too”Anton Chekhov (1860 – 1904) Russian playwright and short-story writer

Leadership Quotes - Raymond Smith

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“Administrators are cheap and easy to find and cheap to keep. Leaders – risk takers: they are in very short supply. And ones with vision are pure gold.”Raymond W. Smith (b. 1937) U.S. chairman of Rothschild and Bell Atlantic

Learning Quotes - Alvin Toffler

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“The illiterate of the year 2000 will not be the individual who cannot read and write, but the one who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”Alvin Toffler (b. 1928) U.S. writer and futurist

Fight - Lose Quotes - Arthur Hugh Clough

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“'Tis better to have fought and lost,Than never to have fought at all.”Arthur Hugh Clough (1819 – 61) British poet

Wisdom - Listening Quotes - Chakraborty

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“Wisdom comes with talking less frivolously and listening more seriously. The latter implies a learning attitude; the former assumes an air of omniscience that does not exist.”S. K. Chakraborty (b. 1957) Indian academic

Tourism - Travel Quotes - Robert Runcie

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“In the Middle Ages, people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.”Robert Runcie (1921 – 2000) British archbishop

Travel - Mind Quotes - GK Chesterton

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“They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.”G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936) British novelist and journalist

Wage Increment Quotes - Geoffrey Howe

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“In the not too distant future the notion of the annual pay increase must become as exceptional as it was novel a generation ago.”Geoffrey Howe (b. 1926) British politician

Wealth Quotes - Arthur Schopenhauer

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“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; the same is true of fame.”Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) German philosopher

Victory - Winning Quotes - Coubertin

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“The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won, but to have fought well.”Pierre de Coubertin (1863 – 1937) French founder of the modern Olympic Games

Important Work Quotes - Edward Wilson

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“If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.” [read business-fable]Edward O. Wilson (b. 1929) U.S. biologist and conservationist

Humor - Conscience Quote - Mark Twain

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“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Honest Lawyer Quotes - Abraham Lincoln

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“Resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer. Choose some other occupation.”Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 65) U.S. president

True Friendship Quotes - Charles Colton

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“True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.”Charles Caleb Colton (1780 – 1832) English cleric and writer

Time Quotes - Carl Sandburg

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“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967) U.S. biographer and poet

Beauty Dreams Quotes - Eleanor Roosevelt

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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” [read business-fable]Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962) U.S. human rights activist, author, and first lady

Nature Cure Quotes - Voltaire

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“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”Voltaire (1694 – 1778) French writer and philosopher

Medicine - Illness Quotes - Moliere

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“Nearly all men die of their medicines, and not of their illnesses.”Molière (1622 – 73) French satirist and theatre director

Medic Nursing Quote - Florence Nightingale

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“No man, not even a doctor, ever gives any other definition of what a nurse should be than this – 'devoted and obedient.' This definition would do just as well for a porter. It might even do for a horse. It would not do for a policeman.”Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910) English founder of modern nursing

Healthy Quotes - Izaak Walton

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“Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.”Izaak Walton (1593 – 1683) English writer

Humor - Doctor Quotes - Oscar Wilde

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“I only care to see doctors when I am in perfect health; then they comfort one, but when one is ill they are most depressing.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Bible Quotes - Physician

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“Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which you may have of him; for the Lord hath created him.”Bible Ecclesiasticus 38:1

Practice of Medicine Quotes - Hippocrates

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“The life so short, the craft so long to learn.”Hippocrates (460? - 370? B.C.) Greek physician

Diseases Cure Quote - Thomas Browne

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“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”Thomas Browne (1605 – 82) English author

Funny Hospital Quotes - Neil Simon

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“I can't stand whispering. Every time a doctor whispers in the hospital, next day there's a funeral.”Neil Simon (b. 1927) U.S. playwright and screenwriter

Medicine - Magic Quotes - Thomas Szasz

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“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.”Thomas Szasz (b. 1920) Hungarian psychiatrist

Tax and Please - Quotes - Edmund Burke

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“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”Edmund Burke (1729 – 97) British philosopher and politician

Tax Quotes - Penalty - Steve Forbes

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“Taxes are not simply a means of raising revenue; they are also ... the price we pay for the privilege of working, the price we pay for being productive, and the price we pay for being innovative and successful.”Steve Forbes (b. 1947) U.S. publisher of Forbes magazine

Pay No Tax Quotes - Alan Sugar

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“The accountants have told me that I can have one foot in Jersey, my left earlobe in the Isle of Man, and my right foot in Zurich and pay little or no tax, but ... I will not be running away to the South of France.”Alan Sugar (b. 1947) British founder and chairman of Amstrad

Inflation - Tax Quotes - Milton Friedman

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“Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.”Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006) U.S. winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics

Consumption Tax Quotes - David Hume

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“The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury ... They seem, in some measure, voluntary; since a man may chuse how far he will use the commodity which is taxed.”David Hume (1711 – 76) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian

Withholding Tax Quotes - Vivien Kellems

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“Under the hypnosis of war hysteria, with a pusillanimous Congress rubber-stamping every whim of the White House, we passed the withholding tax.”Vivien Kellems (1896 – 1975) U.S. industrialist

Taxation Quotes - James Otis

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“Taxation without representation is tyranny.”James Otis (1725 – 83) U.S. politician

Lobbying Tax Quotes - Jimmy Carter

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“Tax laws also benefit those who have the best lobbying efforts ... and the larger the corporations are, the smaller proportion they pay in taxes.”Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) U.S. president and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize

Tax - Justice Quotes - James Madison

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“The apportionment of taxes ... is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice.”James Madison (1751 – 1836) U.S. president

Tax - Equality Quotes - Andrew Jackson

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“The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that operates with perfect equality.”Andrew Jackson (1767 – 1845) U.S. president

Tax Quotations - Franklin Roosevelt

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“Taxes, after all, are the dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society.”Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 – 1945) U.S. president

No Taxes - Quotes - George Bush

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“Read my lips: no new taxes.”George H. W. Bush (b.1924) U.S. president

Funny Illness Quotes - Samuel Butler

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“I reckon being ill as one of the greatest pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work until one is better.”Samuel Butler (1835 – 1902) British writer

Celebrity Home Quotes - Bette Davis

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“Home is where you go to when you've nowhere to go.”Bette Davis (1908 – 89) U.S. actress

Journalism Quotes - Nicholas Tomalin

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“The only qualities essential for real success in journalism are ratlike cunning, a plausible manner, and a little literary ability.”Nicholas Tomalin (1931 – 73) English journalist

Money - Enemy Quotes - Spike Milligan

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“Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.”Spike Milligan (1918 – 2002) Irish entertainer

Newspapers Quotes - Mark Twain

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“I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it, but I couldn't find honest employment.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Purpose Quotes - Harold Macmillan

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“If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishops. They should not hope to get it from their politicians.”Harold Macmillan (1894 – 1986) British prime minister

Self Regard Quotes - James Boswell

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“That favourite subject, Myself.”James Boswell (1740 – 95) Scottish lawyer, biographer and diarist

Gifted Talent Quotes - Warren Bennis

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“Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, not should they be.”Warren Bennis (b. 1925) U.S. lecturer and writer

Funny Success Quotes - Albert Einstein

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“If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.”Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) U.S. winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics

Success Quotes - Charles Dunstone

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“If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.”Charles Dunstone (b. 1964) British co-founder and C.E.O. of Carphone Warehouse

Business Strategy Quote - Kenichi Ohmae

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“In business as on the battlefield, the object of strategy is to bring about the condition most favorable to one's own side.”Kenichi Ohmae (b. 1943) Japanese business and corporate strategist

Health Quotes - Mark Twain

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“He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.'”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Criticism - Praise Quotes - Noel Coward

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“I can take any amount of criticism, so long as it is unqualified praise.”Noël Coward (1899 – 1973) English actor, playwright, and composer

Funny Cow Quotes - Fred Allen

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“Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.”Fred Allen (1894 – 1956) U.S. comedian and satirist

Company Quotes - Benjamin Franklin

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“He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.”Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 90) U.S. scientist, politician, and diplomat

Bore People Quotes - Rochefoucauld

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“Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same persons?”François de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 80) French author of maxims and memoirs

Believe in me Quotes - Oscar Wilde

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“Where will it all end? Half the world does not believe in God, and the other half does not believe in me.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Advice Quotes - Lord Chesterfield

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“Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.”Philip Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield (1694 – 1773) British statesman and man of letters

Liar - Truth Quotes - Logan Smith

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“If you want to be thought a liar always tell the truth.”Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 – 1946) British essayist and critic

Income Tax - Liar Quotes - Will Rogers

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“Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.”Will Rogers (1879 – 1935) U.S. comedian, humorist, and actor

Avoid Tax Quotes - Learned Hand

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“Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible”Learned Hand (1872 – 1961) U.S. judge

Greed - Wealth Quote - Andrew Carnegie

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“Men who continue hoarding great sums all their lives, the proper use of which for the public ends would work good to the community, should be made to feel that the community, in the form of the state, cannot thus be deprived of its proper share. By taxing estates heavily at death the state marks its condemnation of the selfish millionaire's unworthy life.”Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1919) U.S.

Tax Quotes - Logic - James McReynolds

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“Logic and taxation are not always the best of friends.”James C. McReynolds (1862 – 1946) U.S. jurist

Examinations Quotes - Oscar Wilde

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“Examinations are of no value whatsoever. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Time Management - Douglas Adams

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“I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.” [read business-fable]Douglas Adams (1952 – 2001) British comedy writer and dramatist

Funny Age Quotes - Oscar Wilde

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“The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Public Appearance Quote - Princess Anne

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“When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail – none of which is easy.”Anne, Princess Royal (b. 1950) British royal

Argument Quotes - James Whistler

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“I am not arguing with you – I am telling you.”James McNeill Whistler (1834 – 1903) U.S. painter

Inherit Beauty Quotes - Bernard Shaw

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“What if the child inherits my beauty and your brains?”George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) Irish winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Lack of Money Quotes - Mark Twain

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“The lack of money is the root of all evil.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Noisy People Quotes - Mark Twain

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“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is the lightning that does the work.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Train Dog Quotes - Barbara Woodhouse

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“I can train any dog in five minutes. It's training the owner that takes longer.”Barbara Woodhouse (1910 – 88) English animal trainer

Funny - Poverty Quotes - William Pitt

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“Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.”William Pitt (the younger) (1759 – 1806) British prime minister

Rich - Poor Quotes - Oscar Wilde

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“There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. That is the misery of being poor.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Death Taxes Quotes - Margaret Mitchell

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“Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.”Margaret Mitchell (1900 – 49) U.S. author

Avoid Tax Quotes - John Keynes

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“The avoidance of taxes is the only pursuit that still carries any reward.”John Maynard Keynes (1883 – 1946) British economist

Progress - Taxes Quotes - Steve Forbes

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“Taxes are a barrier to progress, and they punish rather than reward success.”Steve Forbes (b. 1947) U.S. publisher of Forbes magazine

Recall Mistakes Quotes - Pearl Buck

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“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.”Pearl S. Buck (1892 – 1973) U.S. winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Politician - Press Quotes - Enoch Powell

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“For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea.”Enoch Powell (1912 – 98) British politician

Rubbish - News Quotes - Yehudi Menuhin

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“Whenever I see a newspaper, I think of the poor trees. As trees they provide beauty, shade and shelter. But, as paper, all they provide is rubbish.”Yehudi Menuhin (1916 – 99) British violinist and conductor

Newspaper Editor Quotes - Higgins

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“When I started out, people were afraid of parish priests. Now they're afraid of newspaper editors.”Michael D. Higgins (b. 1941) Irish politician

Journalism Quotes - Humor - Chesterton

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“Journalism largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.”G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936) British novelist and journalist

Love Yourself Quotes - Benjamin Franklin

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“He that falls in love with himself, will have no rivals.”Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 90) U.S. scientist, politician, and diplomat

Late - Punctual Quotes - Oscar Wilde

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“He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Humor - Power Quotes - Cecil King

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“I see nothing wrong with power as long as I am the fellow who has it.”Cecil King (1901 – 87) English newspaper proprietor

Plagiarism Quotes - Thornton Wilder

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“I do borrow from other writers, shamelessly! I can only say in my defense, like the woman brought before the judge on a charge of kleptomania, 'I do steal; but, Your Honor, only from the very best stores.'”Thornton Wilder (1897 – 1975) U.S. novelist and playwright

Bias - Opinion Quotes - Oscar Wilde

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“It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiassed opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiassed opinion is always absolutely valueless.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Art - Painting Quotes - John Sargent

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“Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.”John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925) U.S. painter

Old Age Quotes - Anthony Powell

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“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”Anthony Powell (1905 – 2000) British novelist

Funny Newspapers Quotes - George Ade

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“He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young, and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.”George Ade (1866 – 1944) U.S. playwright

Mistress Quotes - William Wycherley

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“Next to the pleasure of taking a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.”William Wycherley (1640? – 1716) English dramatist

Funny Lawyer Quotes - Barten Holyday

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“A man may as well open an oyster without a knife as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.”Barten Holyday (1593 – 1661) English translator

Funny Life Quotes - John Clare

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“If life has a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.”John Clare (1793 – 1864) English poet

Laughter Quotes - Oscar Wilde

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“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cavemen had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Details - CEO Quotes - Rupert Murdoch

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“I try to keep in touch with the details – you can't keep in touch with them all, but you've got to have a feel for what's going on.”Rupert Murdoch (b. 1931) U.S. C.E.O. of News Corporation

Consensus Decision Quotes - Ouchi

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“Decision making by consensus has been the subject of a great deal of research ... evidence strongly suggests that a consensus approach yields more creative decisions and more effective implementation than does individual decision making.”William Ouchi (b. 1943) U.S. business management writer

Creativity - Setback Quotes - Andre Gide

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“One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”André Gide (1869 – 1951) French winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Consumer is King - Quotes - Samuelson

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“The consumer, so it is said, is the king ... each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the things done that he wants done.”Paul Samuelson (b. 1915) U.S. winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics

Conscience Quotes - Elbert Hubbard

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“If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.”Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915) U.S. writer and publisher

Confidence Quotes - Henry Ford

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“Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right.”Henry Ford (1864 – 1947) U.S. founder of Ford Motor Company

Silence Quotes - Charles Colton

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“When you have nothing to say, say nothing.”Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832) English cleric and writer

Conflict Quotes - Stephen Covey

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“Avoid fight or flight, talk through differences.” [read business fable]Stephen Covey (b. 1932) U.S. psychologist and business author

Choice - Excuses Quotes - Pearl Buck

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“Once the what is decided the how always follows. We must not make the how an excuse for not facing and accepting the what.”Pearl S. Buck (1892 – 1973) U.S. winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Star Maker Quotes - Bud Hadfield

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“Bury your ego. Don't be the star. Be the star maker!”Bud Hadfield (b. 1923) U.S. founder of Kwik Kopy

Quotes - Change Leaders - Peter Drucker

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“Organizations that are change leaders are designed for change. But people need continuity ... they do not function well if the environment is not predictable, not understandable, not known.”Peter F. Drucker (1909 - 2005) U.S. management consultant and author

Challenge Quotes - William Shakespeare

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“When the sea was calm, all boats alikeShow'd mastership in floating.”William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) English poet and playwright

Retirement Quotes - Walter Wriston

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“When you retire ... you go from who's who to who's that, like stepping off the pier (or) achieving statutory senility.”Walter Wriston (1919 - 2005) U.S. banker and chairman of Citicorp

Job Title Quotes - Rosabeth Kanter

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“The power of the position is giving way to the power of the person. A formal title and its placement on an organization chart have less to do with career prospects and success ... than the skills and ideas a person brings to that work.”Rosabeth Moss Kanter (b. 1943) U.S. management theorist, academic and writer

Drive Business Quotes - BC Forbes

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“If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.”Bertie Charles Forbes (1880 – 1954) U.S. founder of Forbes magazine

Espionage Ethics Quote - Warren Bennis

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“Copying other organizations' activities sounds like industrial espionage to some people, but the truth is that benchmarking is perfectly legal and ethical.”Warren Bennis (b. 1925) U.S. Lecturer and writer

Bureaucracy Quotes - Aneurin Bevan

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“Poor fellow, he suffers from files.”Aneurin Bevan (1897 – 1960) British politician and socialist

Teenager Quotes - Judith Martin

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“The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes – naturally, no one wants to live any other way.”Judith Martin (b. 1938) U.S. journalist

Time Flies Quotes - Eric Linklater

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“At my back I often hear Time's winged chariot changing gear.”Eric Linklater (1899 – 1974) Scottish writer

Valentine Quotes - William Shakespeare

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“Then, must you speakOf one that loved not wisely but too well.”William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) English poet and playwright

Why Love - Quotes - Montaigne

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“If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: 'Because it was he; because it was me.'”Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 – 92) French essayist

Afford Love - Quotes - Anthony Trollope

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“Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.”Anthony Trollope (1815 – 82) English novelist

Age - Memory Quotes - Denis Healey

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“Three things happen when you get to my age. First your memory starts to go ... and I have forgotten the other two.”Denis Healey (b. 1917) British politician

Humor - Argue Quotes - Abraham Lincoln

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“His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.”Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 65) U.S. president

Bachelor Quotes - Humor - Oscar Wilde

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“By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Funny Celebrity Quotes - Fred Allen

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“A celebrity is one who works hard all his life to become well-known and then goes through back streets wearing dark glasses so he won't be recognized.”Fred Allen (1894 – 1956) U.S. comedian and satirist

Quote - Women's Clothes - Anatole France

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“Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes; men who like women never notice what they wear.”Anatole France (1844 – 1924) French winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Critic Quotes - Sarcasm - Noel Coward

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“I was delighted to see that you thought I was as good as I thought I was.”Noël Coward (1899 – 1973) English actor, playwright, and composer

Humor - Death Quotes - Mark Twain

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“I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Dinner - Quotes - Somerset Maugham

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“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.”W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) British novelist and short story writer

Quotes - Expect Nothing - Alexander Pope

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“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744) English poet

Quote - Benefit of doubt - Thomas Carlyle

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“If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.”Thomas Carlyle (1795 – 1881) British historian and essayist

Drinking Problem - Quotes - Tom Waits

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“I don't have a drink problem except when I can't get one.”Tom Waits (b. 1949) U.S. singer and songwriter

Humorous Enemy Quotes - Voltaire

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“My prayer to God is a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' God has granted it.”Voltaire (1694 – 1778) French writer and philosopher

Funny Exercise Quotes - Robert Hutchins

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“Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.”Robert M. Hutchins (1899 – 1977) U.S. educator

Gourmet - Health Quotes - James Beard

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“A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.”James Beard (1903 - 85) U.S. food writer

Genius - Talent Quotes - Owen Meredith

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“Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.”Owen Meredith (1831 – 91) English statesman and poet

Quote - Government Jokes - Will Rogers

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“I don't make jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.”Will Rogers (1879 – 1935) U.S. comedian, humorist, and actor

Hate Quotes - Love Quotes - Lord Byron

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“Now Hatred is by far the longest pleasure;Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.”George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788 – 1824) British poet

Fashion Quotes - Christopher Morley

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“High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.”Christopher Morley (1890 – 1957) U.S. novelist and poet

Journalist Quotes - Humor - Arnold Bennett

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“Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.”Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931) British novelist and essayist

Quotes - Life like a sewer - Tom Lehrer

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“Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put in.”Tom Lehrer (b. 1928) U.S. singer and songwriter

Valentine - Romance Quote - Oscar Wilde

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“Men always want to be a woman's first love. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Marriage - Humor Quote - Benjamin Franklin

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“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 90) U.S. scientist, politician, and diplomat

Marriage Quotes - Deception - Oscar Wilde

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“The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Men Quotes - Humor Quotes - Mencken

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“Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.”H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956) U.S. journalist and critic

Funny - Middle Age Quotes - Doris Day

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“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.”Doris Day (b. 1924) U.S. singer and actress

Woman's Mind Quotes - Oliver Herford

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“A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's; she changes it more often.”Oliver Herford (1863 – 1935) U.S. writer and illustrator

Quote - Mistakes - James Bennett

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“I have made mistakes, but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.”James Gordon Bennett, Jr. (1841 – 1918) U.S. newspaper publisher

Humor - Money Quotes - Oscar Wilde

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“When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know that it is.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Funny Newspaper Quote - Thomas Jefferson

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“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826) U.S. president

Dead Poet - Funny Quotes - Oscar Wilde

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“England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Quotes - Political Career - Bernard Shaw

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“He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) Irish winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Humor - Free Press Quote - Mark Twain

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“It is a free press ... There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Selfishness Quotes - Oscar Wilde

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“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Humorous Sex Quotes - Dorothy Sayers

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“As I grow older and olderAnd totter towards the tomb,I find that I care less and lessWho goes to bed with whom.”Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 – 1957) British novelist and playwright

Quotes - Empty Talk - Robert Frost

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“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”Robert Frost (1874 – 1963) U.S. poet

Humor Quotes - Wife - Groucho Marx

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“We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.”Groucho Marx (1890 – 1977) U.S. comedian and actor

Income Tax Quotes - Thomas Dewar

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“The one thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.”Thomas Robert Dewar (1864 – 1930) British distiller

Funny - Temptation Quotes - Oscar Wilde

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“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Quotes - Woman's Age - Robert Frost

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“Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.”Robert Frost (1874 – 1963) U.S. poet

Funny Work Quotes - Robert Benchley

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“Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.”Robert Benchley (1889 – 1945) U.S. humorist

Romance Quotes - William Shakespeare

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“O! how this spring of love resemblethThe uncertain glory of an April day.”William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) English poet and playwright

Unrequited Love Quotes - Charles Schulz

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“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”Charles M. Schulz (1922 – 2000) U.S. cartoonist (Charlie Brown in Peanuts)

About Love - Quotes - JM Barrie

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“If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.”J. M. Barrie (1860 – 1937) Scottish novelist and dramatist (on the topic of love)

Kisses - Wisdom Quotes - Cummings

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“Kisses are a better fatethan wisdom.”e. e. cummings (1894 – 1962) U.S. poet and playwright

Funny Quotes - Dating - PJ O'Rourke

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“Dating is a social engagement with the threat of sex at its conclusion.”P. J. O'Rourke (b. 1947) U.S. political satirist and journalist

Hatred Quotes - Unite - Anton Chekhov

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“Love, friendship, respect do not unite people so much as common hatred for something.”Anton Chekhov (1860 – 1904) Russian playwright and short-story writer

Humor - Homosexuality Quote - Anita Bryant

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“If homosexuality were the normal way, God would have made Adam and Bruce.”Anita Bryant (b. 1940) U.S. singer

Valentine Quotes - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“Nothing in the world is single;All things by a law divineIn one spirit meet and mingle.Why not I with thine?”Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822) British poet

Bible Quotes - Marriage and Separation

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“What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”Bible: St Matthew

Submissive Woman Quote - George Eliot

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“A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.”George Eliot (1819 – 80) British novelist

Marriage Problems Quote - Princess Diana

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“There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.”Diana, Princess of Wales (1961 – 97) British princess

Close Friends Quotes - Mikhail Lermontov

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“Of two close friends, one is always the slave of the other.”Mikhail Lermontov (1814 – 41) Russian poet

Pride - Esteem Quotes - Irving Berlin

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“Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you.”Irving Berlin (1888 – 1989) U.S. composer and lyricist

Beauty Quotes - Funny - Aldous Huxley

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“Beauty for some provides escape,Who gain a happiness in eyeingThe gorgeous buttocks of the apeOr Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.”Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) U.S. writer

Humor - Envy Jealousy Quotes - Casimir

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“If something pleasant happens to you, don't forget to tell it to your friends, to make them feel bad.”Casimir, Comte de Montrond (1768 – 1843) French diplomatic agent

Woman Quotes - Humor - Anton Chekhov

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“A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages – first an acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend.”Anton Chekhov (1860 – 1904) Russian playwright and short-story writer

Quotes - Doubt a Friend - Rochefoucauld

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“It is more shameful to doubt one's friends than to be duped by them.”François de La Rochefoucauld (1613 – 80) French author of maxims and memoirs

Humor - Love Quotes - Lampedusa

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“Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”Giuseppe di Lampedusa (1896 – 1957) Italian writer

Love You Till - Quotes - WH Auden

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“I'll love you, dear, I'll love youTill China and Africa meetAnd the river jumps over the mountainAnd the salmon sing in the street,I'll love you till the oceanIs folded and hung up to dryAnd the seven stars go squawkingLike geese about the sky.”W. H. Auden (1907 – 73) U.S. poet

First Love - Quotes - Benjamin Disraeli

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“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.”Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 81) British prime minister

Love Conquers All Quotes - Virgil

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“Love conquers all things: let us give in to Love.”Virgil (70 – 19 B.C.) Roman poet

Wisdom - Love Quote - William Shakespeare

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“To be wise, and love,Exceeds man's might.”William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) English poet and playwright

Famous Love Quotes - Benjamin Disraeli

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“We are all born for love ... It is the principle of existence, and its only end.”Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 81) British prime minister

Quotes - Love frees us - Sophocles

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“One wordFrees us of all the weight and pain of life:That word is love.”Sophocles (495? - 406 B.C.) Greek tragedian

Road Less Traveled Quote - Robert Frost

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“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.”Robert Frost (1874 – 1963) U.S. poet

Famous Music Quotes - William Congreve

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“Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast.”William Congreve (1670 – 1729) English playwright and poet

Classic Quotes - Revenge - Francis Bacon

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“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626) English philosopher and statesman

Famous Political Quotes - Aristotle

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“Man is by nature a political animal.”Aristotle (384 – 322 B.C.) Greek philosopher

Quotes - Types of Laughter - James Agee

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“In the language of screen comedians four of the main grades of laugh are the titter, the yowl, the belly laugh and the boffo. The titter is just a titter. The yowl is a runaway titter. Anyone who has ever had the pleasure knows all about a belly laugh. The boffo is the laugh that kills.”James Agee (1909 – 55) U.S. film critic and novelist

Jogging - Humor Quotes - Erma Bombeck

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“The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.”Erma Bombeck (1927 – 96) U.S. humorist

Funny Housework Quotes - Quentin Crisp

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“There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.”Quentin Crisp (1908 – 99) British writer

Humorous Dining Quote - Oscar Wilde

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“After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Humor - Fat Quotes - Cyril Connolly

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“Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.”Cyril Connolly (1903 – 74) British critic and novelist

Quote - Keep Trying - Roberto Goizueta

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“You can only stumble if you're moving.”Roberto Goizueta (1931 – 97) U.S. chairman and C.E.O. of The Coca-Cola Company

Quotes - Bear Defeat - Robert Ingersoll

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“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”Robert G. Ingersoll (1833 – 99) U.S. social activist and orator

Civilization Quotes - Marya Mannes

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“The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.”Marya Mannes (1904 – 90) U.S. essayist and journalist

Quote - Common Sense - Lord Chesterfield

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“Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of.”Philip Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield (1694 – 1773) British statesman and man of letters

Quotes - Revenge - Mahatma Gandhi

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“An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.”Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) Indian nationalist leader and philosopher

True Honor Quote - Friedrich Schiller

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“Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.”Friedrich Schiller (1759 – 1805) German poet and dramatist

Dreams - Quotes - Langston Hughes

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“Hold fast to dreamsFor if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged birdThat cannot fly.” [read business-fable]Langston Hughes (1902 – 67) U.S. novelist, poet, and playwright

Age Quotes - Difficulties - Josh Billings

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“In youth we run into difficulties; in old age difficulties run into us.”Josh Billings (1818 – 85) U.S. humorist and lecturer

Imagination Quotes - Joseph Joubert

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“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”Joseph Joubert (1754 – 1824) French moralist and essayist

Quotes - Achievement - Neil Armstrong

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“That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”Neil Armstrong (b. 1930) U.S. astronaut

Famous Courage Quotes - Emily Bronte

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“No coward soul is mine,No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere;I see Heaven's glories shine,And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.”Emily Bronte (1818 – 48) British novelist and poet

Homosexuality Quotes - Patrick Campbell

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“It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.”Mrs Patrick Campbell (1865 – 1940) British stage actress (commenting on a homosexual affair between actors)

Spice of Life Quotes - William Cowper

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“Variety's the very spice of life,That gives it all its flavour.”William Cowper (1731 – 1800) British poet and hymnodist

Quotes - No Choice - Henry Ford

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“Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.”Henry Ford (1864 – 1947) U.S. founder of Ford Motor Company

Money Quote - Funny - Frank Hubbard

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“The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.”Frank McKinney Hubbard (1868 – 1930) U.S. cartoonist and humorist

Quotes - Bring Up Children - John Wilmot

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“Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; and now I have six children, and no theories.”John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647 – 80) English poet

Quotes - Politicians - Nikita Khruschev

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“Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.”Nikita Khruschev (1894 – 1971) Soviet Union Premier

Poverty Quotes - Humor - Finley Dunne

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“One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones that never have it.”Finley Peter Dunne (1867 – 1936) U.S. humorist

Woman Quote - Punctual - Richard Sheridan

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“Punctuality is a species of constancy, a very unfashionable quality in a lady.”Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 – 1816) Irish statesman and playwright

Quote - Better World - Baden Powell

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“Leave this world a little better than you found it.”Robert Baden-Powell (1857 – 1941) British founder of the Scouting Movement

Humor Quotes - Genius - Elbert Hubbard

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“Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.” [read business fable]Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915) U.S. writer and publisher

Truth - Humor Quote - Oscar Wilde

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“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Money - Wealth Quotes - Maurice Baring

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“If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom He gave it.”Maurice Baring (1874 – 1945) English writer

Funny Women Quotes - Hannah Cowley

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“But what is woman? - only one of Nature's agreeable blunders.”Hannah Cowley (1743 – 1809) English playwright

Humor Quote - Winning - George Ade

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“Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.”George Ade (1866 – 1944) U.S. playwright

Humor - Marriage Quotes - Jill Bennett

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“Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.”Jill Bennett (1931 – 90) British actress

Beauty Quote - Woman - Anton Chekhov

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“When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'”Anton Chekhov (1860 – 1904) Russian playwright and short-story writer

Quote - Sharp Tongue - Washington Irving

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“A tart temper mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.”Washington Irving (1783 – 1859) U.S. short-story writer and essayist

Humor - Television Quote - Noel Coward

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“Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not for looking at.”Noël Coward (1899 – 1973) English actor, playwright, and composer

Humor Quotes - Flattery - Adlai Stevenson

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“I suppose flattery hurts no one – that is, if he doesn't inhale.”Adlai E. Stevenson (1900 – 65) U.S. politician

Quotations - Fat Men - David Hume

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“I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men, and his aversion to lean ones.”David Hume (1711 – 76) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian

Exercise Quotes - Humor - Henry Ford

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“Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it. If you are sick, you shouldn't take it.”Henry Ford (1864 – 1947) U.S. founder of Ford Motor Company

Valentine Quotes - True Love - Antoine

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“True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.”Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900 – 44) French writer and aviator

Love Quotes - William Shakespeare

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“Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds.”William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) English poet and playwright

Funny Quote - Hot Pants - Benny Hill

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“These hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe.”Benny Hill (1924 – 92) English comic, actor, and singer

Laugh Weep Quote - Ella Wilcox

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“Laugh and the world laughs with youWeep and you weep alone.”Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 – 1919) U.S. poet

Funny Man Quotes - Mark Twain

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“Man was made at the end of a week's work when God was tired.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Funny Quotes - Man - Samuel Butler

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“Man is the only animal that can remain friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”Samuel Butler (1835 – 1902) British writer

Famous Love Quotes - Vincent van Gogh

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“I believe people who think love prevents one from thinking clearly are wrong; for then one thinks very clearly and is more active than before. And love is something eternal— the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.”Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 90) Dutch draughtsman and

Love Quotes - Eternity - Henry van Dyke

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“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”Henry van Dyke (1852 – 1933) U.S. educator and poet

Quotes - Love - Higher Law - Boethius

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“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480 – 524?) Roman philosopher

Religious Quotes - Love - St Francis

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“Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace!Where there is hatred let me sow love.”St. Francis of Assisi (1182 – 1226) Roman Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order

Famous Quote - Love - William Blake

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“Love seeketh only Self to please,To bind another to its delight,Joys in another’s loss of ease,And builds a Hell in Heaven’s despite.”William Blake (1757 – 1827) English poet and painter

Famous Love Quotes - William Blake

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“Love seeketh not itself to please,Nor for itself hath any care,But for another gives its ease,And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.”William Blake (1757 – 1827) English poet and painter

Homosexuality Quote - Alfred Douglas

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“I am the Love that dare not speak its name.”Alfred Bruce Douglas (1870 – 1945) Uranian poet (referring to his homosexual relationship with Oscar Wilde)

Humor Lover Quotes - Dorothy Parker

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“By the time you say you're his,Shivering and sighingAnd he vows his passion isInfinite, undying -Lady, make a note of this:One of you is lying.”Dorothy Parker (1893 – 1967) U.S. writer and poet

Valentine Quotes - Kiss - Harburg

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“Oh, innocent victims of Cupid,Remember this terse little verse;To let a fool kiss you is stupid,To let a kiss fool you is worse.”E. Y. Harburg (1898 – 1981) U.S. lyricist

Friendship Quotes - Ali bin Abi Talib

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“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.”Alī ibn Abī Tālib (599? - 661) Islamic leader

Humor Quote - Wealth - Benjamin Franklin

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“He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.”Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 90) U.S. scientist, politician, and diplomat

Funny Quotes - Gossip - Oscar Wilde

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“It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely true.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Quotes - Withstand Hardship - Confucius

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“A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.”Confucius (551 – 479 B.C.) Chinese thinker and philosopher

Quote - Business Priorities - Alan Sugar

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“The priority in life is to keep an eye on the business and not to get lured into the high social life with groupie-type poseurs who wish to be seen with the new blue-eyed boy.”Alan Sugar (b. 1947) British founder and chairman of Amstrad

Humor - Job Quotes - Ogden Nash

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“You don't need to interpret the tea leaves stuck in a cupTo understand that people who work sitting down get paid more than those people who work standing up.”Ogden Nash (1902 – 71) U.S. poet and humorist

Investment Quotes - Donald Trump

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“Some of the greatest investors I have ever known invest by instinct, rather than research, study, or hard work. If you look back over history, this is the way the greatest fortunes have been built.” [read business-fable]Donald J. Trump (b. 1946) U.S. real estate developer and author

Buy Stocks - Quote - Warren Buffett

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“Buy stocks like you buy your groceries, not like you buy your perfume.”Warren Buffett (b. 1930) U.S. C.E.O. of Berkshire Hathaway

Stock Quotes - Holding - Warren Buffett

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“If you aren't willing to own a stock for ten years, don't even think about owning it for ten minutes.”Warren Buffett (b. 1930) U.S. C.E.O. of Berkshire Hathaway

Quotes - Dare to Imagine - Henry Miller

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“Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.”Henry Miller (1891 – 1980) U.S. writer

Money Quote - Motivation - Oprah Winfrey

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“If money is your motivation, forget it.”Oprah Winfrey (b. 1954) U.S. talk show host and actress

Quotes - Money - William Shakespeare

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“He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends.”William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) English poet and playwright

Wisdom Quote - Change - Octavio Paz

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“Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.”Octavio Paz (1914 – 98) Mexican winner of the Nobel Prize in literature

Great Quote - Change - Kurt Lewin

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“If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.”Kurt Lewin (1890 – 1947) U.S. social psychologist

Quotations - Punctuality - EV Lucas

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“I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely.”E. V. Lucas (1868 – 1938) British writer

Quotes - Reading Books - Chesterton

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“There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.”G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936) British novelist and journalist

Women Quotes - Expense - John Mortimer

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“Restaurants have this in common with ladies: the best are often not the most enjoyable, nor the grandest the most friendly, and the pleasures of the evening are frequently spoiled by the writing of an exorbitant cheque.”John Mortimer (b. 1923) British lawyer, dramatist and writer

Quotes - Rich and Poor - WC Fields

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“A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.”W. C. Fields (1880 – 1946) U.S. comedian and actor

Quotes - Love Romance - Oscar Wilde

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“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself; and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Humor Quotes - Sex - Woody Allen

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“Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful – provided you get between the right man and the right woman.”Woody Allen (b. 1935) U.S. humorist, actor and film director

Funny Sex Quotes - John Barrymore

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“The thing that takes the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble is sex.”John Barrymore (1882 – 1942) U.S. actor

Silence Quotes - Funny - Mark Twain

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“Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.” [read business fable]Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Quote - Saint - Sinner - Oscar Wilde

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“The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Quotes - Self Regard - Benjamin Disraeli

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“Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.”Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 81) British prime minister

Funny Quotes - Cigar - Edward Lytton

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“A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.”Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 – 73) English novelist and politician

Quotes - Speech like babies - Aristotle

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“Speeches are like babies – easy to conceive but hard to deliver.”Aristotle (384 – 322 B.C.) Greek philosopher
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