H. L. Mencken
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Published: September 20, 2026 00:00
"Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true."
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H. L. Mencken
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/H._L._Mencken
Published: September 20, 2026 00:00
"Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true."
Hob Broun
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Hob_Broun
Published: September 20, 2026 00:00
"Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else."
Terry Pratchett
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Published: September 20, 2026 00:00
"A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores."
Carl Reiner
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Published: September 20, 2026 00:00
"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water."
Oscar Levant
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Published: September 19, 2026 00:00
"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Published: September 19, 2026 00:00
"The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it."
Bernard M. Baruch
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Published: September 19, 2026 00:00
"Never answer a critic, unless he's right."
Joe Ancis
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Published: September 19, 2026 00:00
"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."
William Goldman
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/William_Goldman
Published: September 18, 2026 00:00
"Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something."
Nicholas Chamfort
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Nicholas_Chamfort
Published: September 18, 2026 00:00
"In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are."
Rita Rudner
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Published: September 18, 2026 00:00
"My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping."
George Bernard Shaw
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Published: September 18, 2026 00:00
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."
Steven Wright
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Published: September 17, 2026 00:00
"The first time I ever read the dictionary I thought it was a poem about everything."
Mel Brooks
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Mel_Brooks
Published: September 17, 2026 00:00
"Humor is just another defense against the universe."
Douglas Adams
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Douglas_Adams
Published: September 17, 2026 00:00
"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."
George Carlin
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/George_Carlin
Published: September 17, 2026 00:00
"It's never just a game when you're winning."
Sir Richard Steele
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Published: September 16, 2026 00:00
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
Oscar Wilde
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Oscar_Wilde
Published: September 16, 2026 00:00
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
National Lampoon
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/National_Lampoon
Published: September 16, 2026 00:00
"Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face."
Gerald R. Ford
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Gerald_R._Ford
Published: September 16, 2026 00:00
"Things are more like they are now than they have ever been."
Sir William Drummond
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Published: September 15, 2026 00:00
"He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave."
Henry David Thoreau
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Henry_David_Thoreau
Published: September 15, 2026 00:00
"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"
Randy K. Milholland
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Randy_K._Milholland
Published: September 15, 2026 00:00
"The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman."
Don Marquis
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Don_Marquis
Published: September 15, 2026 00:00
"Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
Peter Drucker
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Peter_Drucker
Published: September 14, 2026 00:00
"The computer is a moron."
Art Spander
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Art_Spander
Published: September 14, 2026 00:00
"The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid."
Kingsley Amis
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Kingsley_Amis
Published: September 14, 2026 00:00
"It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge
Published: September 14, 2026 00:00
"What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul."
Mark Twain
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Mark_Twain
Published: September 13, 2026 00:00
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
Harry S Truman
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Published: September 13, 2026 00:00
"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."
Norman Mailer
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Published: September 13, 2026 00:00
"Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war."
Charles McCabe
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Charles_McCabe
Published: September 13, 2026 00:00
"Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art."