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- "The greatest cunning is to have none at all."
- Carl Sandburg (US poet and biographer. 1878–1967)
- "The sea is always the same: and yet the sea always changes."
- Carl Sandburg , Smoke and Steel, VII, Passports 4. North Atlantic, 1922.
- "Age cannot wither her, not custom stale
Her infinite variety. Other women cloy
The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies."
- William Shakespeare (Playwrite and poet. 1564-1616), Antony and Cleopatra 2 ii.
- "Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"
- William Shakespeare , Henry the Fourth - Part Two 2 iv.
- "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
- William Shakespeare , As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 1.
- "Suit the action to the word, the word to the action;
with this special observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature."
- William Shakespeare , Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.
- "My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite"
- William Shakespeare , Romeo and Juliet 2 ii.
- "A man who never missed an occasion to let slip an opportunity"
- George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwrite, essayist and pamphleteer. 1856-1950), on Lord Rosebery.
- "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore
all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
- George Bernard Shaw , Man and Superman (1903) 'Maxims: Virtues and Vice'.
- "But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth."
- George Bernard Shaw , Man and Superman (1903) act I.
- "To alcohol! The cause of - and solution to - all of life's problems!"
- Homer Simpson, Cartoon creation of Matt Greoning.
- "Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen."
- Homer Simpson, Cartoon creation of Matt Greoning.
- "Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!"
- Homer Simpson,
- "Well kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try."
- Homer Simpson,
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- Mr. Chacterson: I wonder-if I might just put a supplementary question, Dr. Whinby-I wonder whether you would mind telling me-simply for the record-if there is any question you think might possibly come up in the
foreseeable future to which you would reply unhesitatingly in the negative?
James Whinby (without hesitation): Quite definitely not!
- N.F.Simpson, The Form
- "Oscar Browning once said: 'I never read books before reviewing them; it prejudices one so.' This is the only interesting thing Browning ever said, although I confess I have never read anything else he has written and until recently had never heard of him. "
- Arthur Smith Writing in The Guardian.
- "Life is short, and the Tour de France long."
- Giles Smith (Journalist), writing in the Daily Telegraph (28/07/2003) in defence of David Duffield's rambling, six hour commentary on Eurosport.
- "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
- Socrates (Greek Philosopher. 469-399 BC)
See also Milton
- "A single death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic."
- Joseph Stalin
- A few days after Stalin lost his pipe...
Stalin's aid: "Have you found your pipe?"
Stalin: "Yes, I found it under the sofa."
Stalin's aid: "Impossible. Three people have already confessed to this crime."
- Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar.
- "Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's is it all going to end?"
- Tom Stoppard
(British dramatist. 1937- ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (1967) act 2.
"A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty--
and, by which definition, a philosopher--
dreamed he was a butterfly,
and from that moment he was never quite sure
that he was not a butterfly
dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher."
- Tom Stoppard
See Chuang-tzu
- "Great fleas have little fleas
Upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas,
And so ad infinitum."
- Jonathan Swift (Anglo-Irish poet, clergyman and satirist. 1667-1745), On Poetry, a Rhapsody (1733).
- "There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy."
- Jonathan Swift
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