I admit it. I am a quotes aficionado. Sometimes people manage to say it just right. If you like quotes, dive in. If you don’t, just walk on by…
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“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to sharpen.” -Eden Phillpott
“The first rule of holes: when you’re in one, stop digging.”
- Molly Ivins (RIP!)
“Those who dance are thought mad by those who do not hear the music”- anonymous
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”- Orwell
“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts”- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.” – James Thurber
“It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.” -W.C. Fields
“If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”- Abraham Lincoln
“You must be the change you want to see in the world.” -Ghandi
“Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.” -Goethe
“Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.”-Will Rogers
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
-Elanore Roosevelt
“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” – Lewis Carroll
“He was a wise man who invented beer.” -Plato
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”- Borges
“In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.” -Johan von Neumann
“I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.”-George Burns
“Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.” -Dan Quayle
“People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn’t explain why I’m lonely.” -Mort Sahl
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THE YOGI BERRA BLOCK- Because is there anyone more quotable?
“You can observe a lot just by watching.”
“You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you
might not get there. “
“Nobody goes there anymore; it’s too crowded.”
“The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.”
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The Mark Twain Block
“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
“I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.”
“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
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The Groucho Marx Block - one of the great manglers of the English language.
“Humor is reason gone mad. “
“I intend to live forever, or die trying.”
“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
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