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- "Nothing is so useless as a general maxim."
- Thomas Macaulay (English essayist and historian. 1800-1859)
- "I don't want to get emotional but this is one of the greatest moments of my life.""
- Nelson Mandela (South African statesman. 1918-) on meeting the Spice Girls.
- "When you have suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling."
- Yann Mantel (Spanish born Author. 1963-), The Life of Pi.
- "It was Richard Parker [a tiger with whom Pi is sharing a lifeboat] who calmed me down. It is the great irony of this story
that the one who scared me witless was the very same who brought me peace, purpose - I dare say even wholeness."
- Yann Mantel , The Life of Pi.
"At 34, he fit the ironic description
of the quintessential Rhodes Scholar:
someone with a great future behind him."
- David Maraniss , writing in his biogrpahy of Bill Clinton , 'First in His Class' (1995).
- "Outside a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read."
- Groucho Marx (American comedian. 1895-1977)
- "Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member."
- Groucho Marx , Groucho and Me (1959) ch 26.
- "Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others."
- Groucho Marx
- "If you fall out of that window and break both your legs, don't come running to me."
- Groucho Marx
"He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right;
but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count."
- A.A. Milne (English writer for children. 1882-1956), The House at Pooh Corner (1928) ch. 5.
- "The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there."
- A.A. Milne ,The House at Pooh Corner (1928) ch. 1.
- "When you are a bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you
find sometimes that a Thing that seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different
when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."
- A.A. Milne ,The House at Pooh Corner (1928) ch. 6.
- "Money couldn't buy friends but you got a better class of enemy."
- Spike Milligan (Popular name of Terence Alan Milligan; British humorist. 1918-2002)
- "The first and wisest of them all
professed
To know this only, that he nothing new."
- John Milton (English Poet. 1608-74), Paradise Regained, 1671.
See also Socrates
- "I want to be who I was when I wanted to be who I am now."
- Marilyn Monroe (Stage name of Norma Jean Mortenson; US film star. 1926-62)
- "A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears."
- Michel de Montaigne (French essayist and courtier. 1533-92)
- "I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.
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- Tamar Myers (Congolese born author), As The World Churns, 2008.
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