Daniel Webster
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Published: September 19, 2024 00:00
"The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."
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Daniel Webster
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Daniel_Webster
Published: September 19, 2024 00:00
"The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."
Kin Hubbard
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Kin_Hubbard
Published: September 19, 2024 00:00
"Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Ludwig_Wittgenstein
Published: September 19, 2024 00:00
"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."
George Orwell
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/George_Orwell
Published: September 19, 2024 00:00
"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."
Voltaire
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Voltaire
Published: September 18, 2024 00:00
"A witty saying proves nothing."
Unknown
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Unknown
Published: September 18, 2024 00:00
"Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea."
Anatole France
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Anatole_France
Published: September 18, 2024 00:00
"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another."
Harold Wilson
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Harold_Wilson
Published: September 18, 2024 00:00
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Robert Frost
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Robert_Frost
Published: September 17, 2024 00:00
"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."
Laurie Anderson
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Laurie_Anderson
Published: September 17, 2024 00:00
"When love is gone, there's always justice./ And when justice is gone, there's always force./ And when force is gone, there's always Mom./ Hi, Mom!"
Bertrand Russell
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Bertrand_Russell
Published: September 17, 2024 00:00
"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Francois_de_La_Rochefoucauld
Published: September 17, 2024 00:00
"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
Agatha Christie
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Agatha_Christie
Published: September 16, 2024 00:00
"If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody."
Ursula K. LeGuin
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Ursula_K._LeGuin
Published: September 16, 2024 00:00
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."
William J. H. Boetcker
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/William_J._H._Boetcker
Published: September 16, 2024 00:00
"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong."
John Lennon
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/John_Lennon
Published: September 16, 2024 00:00
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
Samuel McChord Crothers
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Samuel_McChord_Crothers
Published: September 15, 2024 00:00
"The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them."
Nancy Reagan
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Nancy_Reagan
Published: September 15, 2024 00:00
"I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty."
Johnny Carson
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Johnny_Carson
Published: September 15, 2024 00:00
"I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing."
Malcolm Forbes
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Malcolm_Forbes
Published: September 15, 2024 00:00
"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."
Bill Cosby
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Bill_Cosby
Published: September 14, 2024 00:00
"Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home."
Peter Drucker
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Peter_Drucker
Published: September 14, 2024 00:00
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
Saki
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Saki
Published: September 14, 2024 00:00
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation."
Peter De Vries
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Peter_De_Vries
Published: September 14, 2024 00:00
"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us."
Rita Mae Brown
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Rita_Mae_Brown
Published: September 13, 2024 00:00
"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it."
Eric Hoffer
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Eric_Hoffer
Published: September 13, 2024 00:00
"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."
Dylan Thomas
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dylan_Thomas
Published: September 13, 2024 00:00
"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do."
Steven Wright
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Steven_Wright
Published: September 13, 2024 00:00
"Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?'"
Cathy Ladman
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Cathy_Ladman
Published: September 12, 2024 00:00
"My parents only had one argument in forty-five years. It lasted forty-three years."
Oscar Wilde
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Oscar_Wilde
Published: September 12, 2024 00:00
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
Tom Robbins
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Tom_Robbins
Published: September 12, 2024 00:00
"If little else, the brain is an educational toy."
Fred Allen
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Fred_Allen
Published: September 12, 2024 00:00
"I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars."