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  • Taking one's chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.
        Lemony Snicket   Best?
  • Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
        George Moore   Best?
  • It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
        Tom Hanks   Best?
  • CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was no doubt inflicted upon mythology for the sins of its deities. Of all unbeautiful and inappropriate conceptions this is the most reasonless and offensive. The notion of symbolizing sexual love by a semisexless babe, and comparing the pains of passion to the wounds of an arrow -- of introducing this pudgy homunculus into art grossly to materialize the subtle spirit and suggestion of the work -- this is eminently worthy of the age that, giving it birth, laid it on the doorstep of prosperity.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
        Rabbi Harold Kushner   Best?
  • I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.
        Janeane Garofalo   Best?
  • Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
        Unknown   Best?
  • In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.
        George Orwell   Best?
  • With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling.
        Britney Spears   Best?
  • You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
        Dr. Seuss   Best?
  • Knowledge is true opinion.
        Plato   Best?
  • Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  • The wisest men follow their own direction.
        Euripedes   Best?
  • The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women… merely adored.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
        Bertrand Russell   Best?
  • Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
        Henrik Ibsen   Best?
  • There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong; he can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine....How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex...
        Elizabeth Cady Stanton   Best?
  • The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
        H. P. Lovecraft   Best?
  • Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.
        Edgar Allan Poe   Best?
  • Cross-country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
        William Hazlitt   Best?
  • At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
        Georges Eliot   Best?
  • It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.
        George Bush Sr.   Best?
  • It is [the] belief in absolutes, I would hazard, that is the great enemy today of the life of the mind. This may seem a rash proposition. The fashion of the time is to denounce relativism as the root of all evil. But history suggests that the damage done to humanity by the relativist is far less than the damage done by the absolutist - by the fellow who, as Mr. Dooley once put it, "does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He only knew th' facts in th' case.
        Arthur Schlesinger Jr.   Best?
  • People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
        Soren Kierkegaard   Best?
  • All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • We're more popular than Jesus now; I dont know which will go first; rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
        John Lennon   Best?
  • The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
        George Carlin   Best?

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