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Lilly Tomlin, as Ernestine the Operator


The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year --- everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.

Calvin Coolidge


No man ever listened himself out of a job.

John Dryden


Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Edward Teller


Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.

Titus Maccius Plautus


I am always afraid of your "something shall be done."

Socrates, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Driftwood; Table Talk, 1857


Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Claiborne Pell


My opponent called me a cream puff. ... Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.

1 Timothy 611 Bible


But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

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Jimmy Breslin


Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women


If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don�t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

Albert Einstein


As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio


The freedom of poetic license.

Earnest Hemingway


There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games.

Belva Plain


How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

James Thurber, New Yorker cartoon caption, June 5, 1937


Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

Amos Bronson Alcott


Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.


Believe in miracles but don't depend on them.

Henry Louis Mencken


The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

H Hahn Blavatsky


He who does not care for Heaven but is contented where he is, is already in Heaven.

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Frank Caplan


Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.

Leo Tolstoy


I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac


Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Henry Miller


Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

Robert Orben


Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.

Bern Williams


September tries its best to have us forget summer.

Victor Cousin


All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.

Bible


Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.

Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu


I have three treasures. Guard and keep them:
The first is deep love,
The second is frugality,
And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.
Because of deep love, one is courageous.
Because of frugality, one is generous.
Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)


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.

Peter Farquharson


Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

William James


A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices.

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Andrew Young


Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Irish Proverb


Give away all you like, but keep your bills and your temper.

Seneca


Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Albert Camus


Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.

Lewis Thomas


We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

Sanskrit Proverb


Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore to this day.

I Ching


No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this truth Enjoy the good fortune you still possess.

Pat Elphinstone


The human brain is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it's time to turn off the sound.

Eugene O'Neill


Happiness hates the timid So does science

Golden verses of the Pythagoreans


But respect yourself most of all.

Ronald Reagan


The freedom fighters of Nicaragua ... are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance.

Steven Wright


If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know

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Jean Giraudoux


The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

George Bernard Shaw


Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

Oscar Wilde


I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Robert


Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life--learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Leonardo da Vinci


It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Unknown


What if this weren't a hypothetical question

Bertrand Russell


Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

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E.M. Cioran


He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.

Jean de La Fontaine


Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Craig Claiborne


For those who love it, cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

Delmore Schwartz


Even paranoids have real enemies.

Arthur Cayley


As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Leon Botstein


At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

Hans Konig


For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class.

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