"My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind."

Ashford, Daisy on things and little things   

"It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man."

Elledge, Scott on kindness   

"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"You can never get enough of what you don't want."

Dyer, Wayne on abundance
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"Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle."

Bright, Grant M. on knowledge
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"A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom."

Proverb, Welsh on fools and foolishness   

"Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved."

Thucydides on ignorance
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"A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it."

Clark, Frank A. on parents and parenting
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"Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom."

Elizabeth, Queen on wisdom
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"Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink"

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on humankind
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"God is only a great imaginative experience."

Lawrence, D. H. on god
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"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all."

Rather, Dan on trials
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"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart."

Jerome, Jerome K. on work   

"My secret is practice"

Beckham, David on practice   

"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."

Ruskin, John on success
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"I married beneath me. All women do."

Astor, Lady Nancy on marriage   

"A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man."

Howe, Edgar Watson on forgiveness
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"Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it."

Morley, Christopher on life
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"The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other."

Ma-Tsu on zen
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"You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable."

Duras, Marguerite on men
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"But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out."

Gay, John on money   

"He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow."

Proverb, Spanish on law and lawyers
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"The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount."

Addison, Joseph on pleasure
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"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."

Updike, John on existence
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"The love of truth lies at the root of much humor."

Davies, Robertson on truth
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"Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on wisdom   

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"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on power
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"Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing Embraceable You in spats."

Allen, Woody on animals
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"Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable."

Allen, Woody on life
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"I've never been an intellectual but I have this look."

Allen, Woody on intelligence and intellectuals
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."

Allen, Woody on immortality
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"In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."

Allen, Woody on hollywood
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"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

Allen, Woody on money
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"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead -- not sick, not wounded -- dead."

Allen, Woody on food and eating
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"What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?"

Allen, Woody on dream
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"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."

Allen, Woody on illusion
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"I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot."

Allen, Woody on drugs
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"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank."

Allen, Woody on skepticism
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"I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."

Allen, Woody on love
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