Quotations

(Please note the use of the word "Quotation" rather than "Quote", the latter being adamantly called a verb by a small faction of society.   Don't want to offend anyone or anything....)

 

"Every page  has to have a quote(ation) section, I think it's one of the rules of the universe."  -Anna

"Who are we?  Where do we come from?  Where are we going?"   -Paul Gaugin

"Only the shallow know themselves"  -Oscar Wilde

"The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on 2 faces."  -Maureen Murphy

"It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts, it saves one having to bother anyone else with them." -Isabel Colgate

"It is better to be quotable than to be honest." -Tom Stoppard

"The goal of inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him."   -Russell Baker

"A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to."   -Granville Hicks

"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."   -Bernard Berenson

"Life being as it is, one dreams of revenge."  -Paul Gaugin

"That which opresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for its entrance?"  -Rabindianath Tagore

"The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there."   -L.P. Hartley

"Nothing is wasted, nothing is in vain.  The seas roll over but the rocks remain."  -A.P. Herbert

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.   Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest."  -Eric Hoffer

"Every reformation must have its victims.  You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return."  -Saki

"The young have aspirations which never come to pass, the old have reminisces of what never happened."  -Saki

"Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real than the things they behave sensibly about?  They are more true:  they are the only things that are true."  -George Bernard Shaw

"But a lifetime of happiness!  No man alive could bear it:  it would be hell on earth."  -George Bernard Shaw

 

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