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  • True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Mad, adj: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Close your mouth, Michael; we are not a codfish.
        Mary Poppins   Best?
  • 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • 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?
  • I can remember the first time I had to go to sleep. Mom said, "Steven, time to go to sleep." I said, "But I don't know how." She said, "It's real easy. Just go down to the end of tired and hang a left." So I went down to the end of tired, and just out of curiosity I hung a right. My mother was there, and she said "I thought I told you to go to sleep.
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • The words you speak today should be soft and tender... for tomorrow you may have to eat them.
        Unknown   Best?
  • It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
        Old Chinese Proverb   Best?
  • Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • A witty saying proves nothing.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Being shot out of a cannon is always better than being squeezed through a tube.
        Hunter S. Thompson   Best?
  • We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • The dark today leads into light tomorrow;
        Ella Wheeler Wilcox   Best?
  • We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.
        Harry S. Truman   Best?
  • The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
        Percy Bysshe Shelley   Best?
  • The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
        Thomas Hobbes   Best?
  • Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
        Frank A. Clark   Best?
  • Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
        Charles Baudelaire   Best?
  • It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
        Eleanor Roosevelt   Best?
  • This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you're doing, or it comes out flat. You can't fake your way through this.
        Real Live Preacher   Best?
  • In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
        Ellen DeGeneres   Best?
  • A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
        Antoine de Saint-Exupery   Best?
  • When writing a novel that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.'
        Neil Gaiman   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?
  • Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
        Samuel Goldwyn   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?
  • There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
        Ovid   Best?
  • The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • It's easy to get lost in thought if it's not familiar territory to you.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
        H. P. Lovecraft   Best?
  • I talk to God, but the sky is empty.
        Sylvia Plath   Best?
  • Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Rincewind had been told that death was just like going into another room. The difference is, when you shout, 'Where's my clean socks?' no-one answers.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • That's a hell of an ambition, to be mellow. It's like wanting to be senile.
        Randy Newman   Best?

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