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  • History, n. An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
        Cicero   Best?
  • Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
        Paul Valery   Best?
  • If you are interested in stories with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book.
        Lemony Snicket   Best?
  • Women are the glue that hold our day-to-day world together.
        Anna Quindlen   Best?
  • There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
        Edith Wharton   Best?
  • Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.
        Melaine Rawn   Best?
  • A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
        Martin Fraquhar Tupper   Best?
  • Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; take each man's censure but reserve thy judgement.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends.
        Irish Blessing   Best?
  • The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
        Beryl Pfizer   Best?
  • He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
        Plato   Best?
  • The measure of a man is what he does with power.
        Pittacus   Best?
  • You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
        Ziggy   Best?
  • Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
        Thomas Berger   Best?
  • You can cover a great deal of country in books.
        Andrew Lang   Best?
  • Being shot out of a cannon is always better than being squeezed through a tube.
        Hunter S. Thompson   Best?
  • To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
        William Blake   Best?
  • Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.
        Joseph Conrad   Best?
  • It's not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the doer of deeds might have done them better. Instead, the credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by sweat and blood and tears.
        Theodore Roosevelt   Best?
  • Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
        Edward Abbey   Best?
  • Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - and surely will at times -- fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
        Dr. Joyce Brothers   Best?
  • Oh for a book and a shady nook...
        John Wilson   Best?
  • To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • There's no jealousy in the grave.
        Rudyard Kipling   Best?
  • When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
        Alfred Hitchcock   Best?
  • I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
        Josh Billings   Best?
  • Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
        Anthony J. D'Angelo   Best?
  • Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes   Best?
  • Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.
        Charles De Secondat   Best?
  • The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
        Alvin Toffler   Best?
  • It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
        Woody Allen   Best?

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