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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


I wish I lived back in the Old West days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a solid-gold pick. Then I'd go out west and start digging for gold. When someone came up and asked what I was doing, I'd say, 'Looking for gold, ya durn fool.' He'd say, 'Your pick is gold.' And I'd say, 'well, that was easy.' Good joke, huh

Marcus Aureluis, Meditations, Book nine


Erase fancy; curb impulse; quench desire; let sovereign reason have the mastery.

Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun


On this planet, there are people with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their flaws.

C. E. Montague


To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.

Vernon Law


Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark


She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.


The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

George Osner


There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Ovid


By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

Oscar Wilde


Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Muriel Rukeyser


The world is not made of molecules, the world is made of stories.

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