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Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Henry Van Dyke


Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Walter Winchell
US gossip columnist & broadcast journalist (1897 - 1972)


How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?

Woody Allen
US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - )


Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001)


Houston, Tranquility Base here. The eagle has landed.

Buzz Aldrin


How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver


Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Leo Tolstoy
Russian mystic & novelist (1828 - 1910)


Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.

Bill Cosby
US comedian & television actor (1937 - )


History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban
Israeli (S. African-born) diplomat & politician (1915 - 2002)


He who lives by the sword, will eventually be wiped out by some bastard with a sawn off shotgun

Steady Eddy


History is more or less bunk.

Henry Ford
US automobile industrialist (1863 - 1947)


He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determines the end.

Harry Emerson Fosdick
US clergyman (1878 - 1969)


Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway
US author & journalist (1899 - 1961)


Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Martin Luther King


Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.

Martin Mull
US comedian and actor (1943 - )


Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitzer
French philosopher & physician (1875 - 1965)


He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.

Ayn Rand
US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 - 1982)


Her only flair is in her nostrils.

Pauline Kael


How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?

Zsa Zsa Gabor
US (Hungarian-born) actress (1919 - )


Having something to say is overrated.

Adair Lara




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