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  • Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works...
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • Woe be to him that reads but one book.
        Adrienne Gusoff   Best?
  • It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our friends, but just as much to stand up to our enemies.
        J. K. Rowling   Best?
  • Trying is the first step towards failure.
        Homer Simpson   Best?
  • It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.   Best?
  • Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!
        Robin Williams   Best?
  • A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
        Adolf Hitler   Best?
  • Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
        Unknown   Best?
  • When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
        Theodore Roosevelt   Best?
  • When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.
        Chinese Proverb   Best?
  • Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
        Ellen DeGeneres   Best?
  • When you reach the thing you were desiring, if it doesn't satisfy you, it was not what you were desiring.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.
        Woodrow Wilson   Best?
  • Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
        Blaise Pascal   Best?
  • Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.
        Leo Rosten   Best?
  • I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
        G. K. Chesterton   Best?
  • ...Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream mother-goose, Alice-and- Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?
        Sylvia Plath   Best?
  • Our situation has the disaffected beauty of a chess game.
        Alan Moore   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?
  • Here's to our girlfriends and wives; may they never meet!
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • I'm just trying to get in, it's not like I'm running for Jesus.
        Homer Simpson   Best?
  • People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
        Soren Kierkegaard   Best?
  • This poem will never reach its destination.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Life's truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way.
        Unknown   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?
  • Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
        Leonardo da Vinci   Best?
  • If you are interested in stories with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book.
        Lemony Snicket   Best?
  • Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.
        George Orwell   Best?
  • The President can bomb anybody he likes.
        Richard Nixon   Best?
  • Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort.
        John Hinckley   Best?
  • Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
        Muhammad Ali   Best?

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