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  • The tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.
        Albert Schweitzer   Best?
  • Courage is knowing what not to fear.
        Plato   Best?
  • What a splendid head, yet no brain.
        Aesop   Best?
  • The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
        Bertrand Russell   Best?
  • The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.
        Margo Kaufman   Best?
  • Do not always assume the other fellow has intelligence equal to yours. He may have more.
        Terry Thomas   Best?
  • I have plentyof common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
        Bill Watterson   Best?
  • The teacher who does not demand effort of his students does not educate - he merely extends ignorance to new subjects.
        Robert Brault   Best?
  • An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
        Charles Bukowski   Best?
  • Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
  • In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.
        George Orwell   Best?
  • Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.   Best?
  • The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Ah yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
        Robin Williams   Best?
  • Intelligence should be judged on the degree you are able to compute information and translate it back in an intellectual manner rather than by what grades you get on a report card.
        Sharcu   Best?
  • You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
        Dr. Seuss   Best?
  • The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Common sense is not so common.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
        Cicero   Best?
  • We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Whoops" is a word that should never be said by some professions - Pilots, Racing car drivers, and hair colourists come immediately to mind but Dentists also have to be up in the top five.
        Richard Stubbs   Best?
  • I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.
        Craig Volk   Best?
  • Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is a maniac?
        George Carlin   Best?
  • Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you haven't really learned anything.
        Mohammad Ali   Best?
  • IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • I aughta join a club and beat you over the head with it.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK.)
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • What's another word for Thesaurus?
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
        Baltasar Gracian   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?

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