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Humour Famous Sayings - 74
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George Horace Lorimer
Colleges don't make fools. They only develop them.
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Henry David Thoreau
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly...I think-- Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.
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Francis Quarles
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self-made sepulcher of a living man.
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William Shakespeare
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
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Author Unknown
The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.
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Harold Bloom
We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.
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Will Rogers
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.
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Miranda Richardson
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
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Dorothy Parker
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
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George Santayana
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
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Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.
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