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tiny.ag/iilw7mtc · ★★☆☆ Fair (2962 ratings) · submitted 1997

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

Mary Howitt, in Happiness and Misery

tiny.ag/rxe07t5e · ★★☆☆ Fair (506 ratings) · submitted 1997

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

Benny Hill, in Men and Women

tiny.ag/iv0n7jxr · ★★☆☆ Fair (468 ratings) · submitted 1997

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

John Burroughs, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/i5ba47dl · ★★☆☆ Fair (478 ratings) · submitted 1997

It gets late early out there.

Yogi Berra, (on Yankee Stadium in the fall), in Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/8vmi9s0a · ★★☆☆ Fair (492 ratings) · submitted 1997

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/zwylfryx · ★★☆☆ Fair (1391 ratings) · submitted 1997

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/losztnwc · ★★☆☆ Fair (499 ratings) · submitted 1997

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/5x9cvfxv · ★★☆☆ Fair (242 ratings) · submitted 1997

I wouldn't mind dying -- it's that business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.

R. Geis, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/mqbuthzj · ★★☆☆ Fair (894 ratings) · submitted 1997 by Brad Johnson

I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

Jimmy Buffett, in Life and Death

tiny.ag/s3j4zgfm · ★★☆☆ Fair (251 ratings) · submitted 1997

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillor, in Vice and Virtue

tiny.ag/c9ykbift · ★★☆☆ Fair (769 ratings) · submitted 1997

When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Anatole France, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/wpy86lpb · ★★☆☆ Fair (881 ratings) · submitted 1997

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Russell Banks, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

tiny.ag/zdvgyvsm · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997

Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George, in Success and Failure

tiny.ag/c6jkeq5x · ★★☆☆ Fair (811 ratings) · submitted 1997

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Marshall McLuhan, in Science and Religion

tiny.ag/8d5pktgj · ★★☆☆ Fair (491 ratings) · submitted 1997

A continuing flow of paper is sufficient to continue the flow of paper.

Dyer, Dyer's Law, in Work and Recreation

tiny.ag/rdqgrf59 · ★★☆☆ Fair (370 ratings) · submitted 1997

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln, in Vice and Virtue

tiny.ag/mglnajv0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1274 ratings) · submitted 1997

It is impossible to love and be wise.

Francis Bacon, in Love and Hate

tiny.ag/wh6qtopk · ★★☆☆ Fair (146 ratings) · submitted 1997

I improve on misquotation.

Cary Grant, in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/soebrnq6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (286 ratings) · submitted 1997

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Sam Brown, (Washington Post, 1977), in Wisdom and Ignorance

tiny.ag/eoc1jiyu · ★★☆☆ Fair (591 ratings) · submitted 1997

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli, in Science and Religion