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  • HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, a one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
        George S. Patton   Best?
  • If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and
        Joseph Goebbels   Best?
  • Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self-imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.
        R. A. Salvatore   Best?
  • I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
        Bob Newhart   Best?
  • There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
        George Orwell   Best?
  • Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.
        Plato   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?
  • We're like actors, turned loose in this world to wander in search of a phantom, endlessly searching for a half formed shadow of our lost reality. 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?
  • Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
        François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
  • There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
        Jack Kerouac   Best?
  • In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
        Anne Frank   Best?
  • If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain!
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
        Malcolm X   Best?
  • He admits there are two sides to every question: his own and the wrong side.
        Channing Pollock   Best?
  • Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.
        F. Scott Fitzgerald   Best?
  • Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • Some people make things happen, some watch while things happen, and some wonder 'What happened?'
        Unknown   Best?
  • Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
        François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
  • I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.
        Beverly Sills   Best?
  • I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
        John Cage   Best?
  • The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
        Joe Ancis   Best?
  • I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
        Samuel Johnson   Best?
  • If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
        Mother Theresa   Best?
  • Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
        W. B. Yeats   Best?
  • The golden rule of cats that governs all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back.
        David Fisher   Best?
  • Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.
        James Joyce   Best?
  • I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.
        Angelina Jolie   Best?
  • The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
        Marcus Aurelius Antoninus   Best?
  • You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.
        George Carlin   Best?

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