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  • English is the easiest language to speak badly.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.
        Lemony Snicket   Best?
  • Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
        Bob Dylan   Best?
  • A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say. "May new sufferings torment your soul.
        Soren Kierkegaard   Best?
  • Anyone who is different today faces harassment, whether it is in the way he dresses, or in the position he takes on important issues. And when the price of being different is a cold fear, with good reason, then freedom as we peddle it in our international publicity releases is gone. If and when it disappears, it won't be stolen by big government, the tax collector, or the Supreme Court. Fascism will be the people's choice. It usually is. We've managed to avoid it so far only because nobody nutty enough to give the people what they want has come along. Yet.
        Mike Royko   Best?
  • When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder. The most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces.
        Jim Morrison   Best?
  • People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
        Aesop   Best?
  • I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.
        Kurt Cobain   Best?
  • I'm tired of people calling me a devil worshipper. It's kind of pointless you know. Because if the Devil did exist, he'd be worshipping me, because I'm more successful than he is.
        Marilyn Manson   Best?
  • Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
        Rabbi Harold Kushner   Best?
  • The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God's existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith.
        Real Live Preacher   Best?
  • There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.
        Homer Simpson   Best?
  • Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded people.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Sex between 2 people is a beautiful thing ; between 5 it's fantastic ...
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.
        Unknown   Best?
  • All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Fashion is for people who don't know who they are.
        Quentin Crisp   Best?
  • If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
        Angelina Jolie   Best?
  • They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • Ah yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
        Robin Williams   Best?
  • Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • All people want is someone to listen.
        Hugh Elliott   Best?
  • Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.
        Homer Simpson   Best?
  • If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall,people will think you're drunk.
        Conan O'Brien   Best?
  • I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • You're who you are and if people don't like who you are, all they're going to get is who you are.
        Avril Lavigne   Best?
  • Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!
        William James   Best?
  • A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
        Thomas Mann   Best?
  • Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
        Jim Morrison   Best?
  • There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.
        Aldous Huxley   Best?

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