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'We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.'
~Alan Bennett

'A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again' (An Essay on Criticism)
~Alexander Pope

'What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.'
~Andre Agassi

'On the paparazzi: I just want them to catch me with my dad and try to turn it into some 'handsome, mystery hunk'.'
~Andrea Corr

'The surest sign of age is loneliness.'
~Annie Dillard

'I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes'
~Anthony Trollope

'The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defense are silent.'
~Archibald MacLeish

'Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.'
~Armand Hammer

'Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.'
~Arthur Wellesley

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'Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?'
~Barbra Streisand

'When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.'
~Benjamin Spock

'They sometimes met on country roads when there were flowers or snow.'
~Bernard Malamud

'Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.'

'The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.'

'If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.'
~Bertrand Russell

'Where the blue of the night
Meets the gold of the day,
Someone waits for me.'
~Bing Crosby

'Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.'
~Brooks Robinson

'The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried.'
~Bud Wilkinson

'Comedy is tragedy plus time.'
~Carol Burnett

'You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.'
~Cate Blanchett

'By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.'
~Charles Wadsworth

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'You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.'
~Charlotte Bronte

'No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.'
~Christopher Morley

'The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.'
~Clive Barnes

'It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.'
~Dante Alighieri

'Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.'
~David Hume

'The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.'
~Duke Ellington

'You can say this for ready-mixes - the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make.'
~Earl Wilson

'He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.'
~Edmund Wilson

'Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.'
~Edward Gibbon

'The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.'
~Edward Grey

'The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.'
~Edwin Land
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'By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.'
~Edwin Markham

'Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.'
~Ella Fitzgerald

'I used to google my name to see what came up - it hurt.'
~Emilio Estevez

'I find it hard to work with other musicians because I know from experience that when they play, they play with their feeling, and that restricts me because I know I want to play in my own particular way.'
~Enya

'Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.'
~Eric Berne

'I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order.'
~Eric Morecambe

'Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.'
~Evita Peron

'A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.'
~Fats Domino

'I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.'
~Florence Nightingale

'Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favourite of fortune.'
~Francis Quarles

'The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.'
~Fred Astaire

'I would like to break out of this 'dark, brooding' image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.'
Gabriel Byrne
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'Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.'
~Gary Snyder

'Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.'
~Geoffrey Fisher

'The tougher the job, the greater the reward.'
~George Allen

*** Sidenote, quotes by Taus wanted, quotes received, and in alphabetical order which does my Virgo Lilith good. 😈

Pressing on with the MAN, George Carlin:

'When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?'

'Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts.But your head still thinks it's 23.'
~George Clooney

'Man your ships and may the force be with you.'
~George Lucas

'Truth exists; only lies are invented.'
~Georges Braque

'If I'm too strong for some people, that's their problem.'
~Glenda Jackson
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'We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.'
~Golda Meir

'You are only as good as the people you dress.'
~Halston

'It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next. It's like asking you to sing a line of Happy Birthday and then Goodnight Irene - assuming you know the words to both those songs.'
~Hank Azaria

'The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.'
~Harper Lee

'The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.'
~Harry S. Truman

'A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.'
~Henry Fielding

'I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.'
~Henry Fonda

'A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.'
~Herbert Spencer

'When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.'
~Honore De Balzac

'When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.'
~Horace Mann

'Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.'
~Hosea Ballou

'There's no business like show business.'
~Irving Berlin

'There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science.'
~J. Robert Oppenheimer
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'People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.'
~Jack Nicholson

'Food is our common ground, a universal experience.'
~James Beard

'A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.'
~James Monroe

'My first crush was Barry Manilow. He performed on TV and I taped it. When no was around I'd kiss the screen.'
~Janet Jackson

'I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good??_Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.'
~Jay Leno

'Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?'
~Jean Renoir

'It's incumbent on those of us who work with the media...to at least cut through some of the nonsense.'
~Jeremy Paxman

'I see TV ads about detergents that can get blood stains out of your cloths. I say if you have blood stains on your cloths you should be thinking about something other than laundry.'
~Jerry Seinfield

'Most nights I end up wearing a wife beater T-shirt and boxers.'
~Jessica Alba

'We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.'
~Jiddu Krishnamurti

'Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them.'
~Jimmy Demaret
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'In bringing up a child, think of its old age.'
~Joseph Joubert

'A man's eroticism is a woman's sexuality.'
~Karl Kraus

'History always repeats itself twice: first time as tragedy, second time as farce.'
~Karl Marx

'It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs.'
~Katharine Hepburn

'I'm cute - and God I hate that. Because that's not cool. I'm like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece.'
~Kelly Clarkson

'Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go.'
~Kingsley Amis

'Why would I cry over a boy? I would never waste my tears. If I need to cry in a scene, I listen to Coldplay.'
~Kirsten Dunst

'When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.'
~Liberace

'No-one is born with perfect eyebrow.'
~Linda Evangelista

'If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.'
~Ludwig Wittgenstein

'When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you... when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're white, when you're cold you're blue, when you're sick you're blue, when you die you're green and you dare call me coloured.'
~Malcom X

'The one thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.'
~Margot Fonteyn

'I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.'
~Mark W. Clark

'Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.'
~Martha Graham

'A company is only as good as the people it keeps.'
~Mary Kay Ash

'Pavement slippery, people sneezing, Lords in ermine, beggars freezing; Titled gluttons dainties carving, Genius in a garret starving.' (January, 1795)
~Mary Robinson

'The majority of Americans - the ones who never elected you - are not fooled by your weapons of mass distraction.'
~Michael Moore

'Always look on the bright side of life.' (Monty Python)
~Michael Palin
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'Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.'
~Michelle Pfeiffer

'I married beneath me, all women do.'
~Nancy Astor

'He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.'
~Niccolo Machiavelli

'Where children are, there is the golden age.'
~Novalis

'It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.'
~Olga Korbut

'Necessity has no law.'
~Oliver Cromwell

'I don't see myself as the hunk of the Month.'
~Pierce Brosnan

'What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.'
~Pope John Paul II

'You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.'
~Rabindranath Tagore

'It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.'
~Randall Jarrell

'Fans don't boo nobodies.'
~Reggie Jackson

'What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?'
~Robert Browning

'If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.'
~Rollo May

'Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.'
~Salvador Dali

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'I stopped believing in Santa Claus when at age six my mother took me to a department store to see him and he asked me for my autograph.'
~Shirley Temple

'Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.'
~Sigmund Freud

'Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.'
~Soren Kierkegaard

'If you don't ask, you don't get.'
~Stevie Wonder

'It can be a bit of a hindrance when you walk into a restaurant for a quiet meal and one or two launch into 'Psycho, Psycho'!'
~Stuart Pearce

'You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.'
~Terry Pratchett

'There are two golden rules for an orchestra - start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.'
~Thomas Beecham

'You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.'
~Tony Blair

'The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.'
~Ulysses S. Grant

'Before I had a child I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realise your love is inexhaustible.'
~Uma Thurman

'For years I was an undiagnosed anorexic, suffering from a little-known variant of the disease, where, freakishly, the appetite turns in on itself and demands more and more food, forcing the sufferer to gain several stones in weight and wear men's V-necked pullovers. My condition has stabilised now, but I can never stray too far from cocoa-based products and I keep a small cracknel-type candy in my brassiere at all times. Fortunately, I wear a 'D' cup so there is plenty of room for sweetmeats...'
~Victoria Wood

'My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.'
~Vladimir Nabokov

'Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.'
~W. Clement Stone

'Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.'
~William Shakespeare

'I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.'
~Wolfgang Pauli

'You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.'
~Yogi Berra

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"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights." - Napoleon

"I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum." - Sid Vicious

"I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than a poet can help the inspiration to sing...I was born with the Evil One standing as my sponsor beside the bed where I was ushered into the world, and he has been with me since." - H. H. Holmes

"Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not." - Madeleine Albright

"A man is a god in ruins." - Duke Ellington