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All Quotes Collection
"In America nothing dies easier than tradition."
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"Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it."
51
"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."
53
"People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure."
51
"Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."
Work,
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"Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it."
51
"Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity."
46
"It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic."
44
"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down."
49
"Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."
Work,
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"In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses."
44
"I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world."
55
"Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it."
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"Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them."
46
"Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity."
38
"Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it."
38
"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong."
62
"Americans like fat books and thin women."
76
"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
143
"A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday."
56
"In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved."
52
"People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately."
41
"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."
38
"The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist."
45
"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."
43
"The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him."
46
"When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools."
39
"What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises."
54
"To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by."
50
"People didn't stop spending money, they just spent it on things that complement their PCs."
45
"Of all the toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled, and it makes a sound when you jump on it."
40
"Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?... No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell."
39
"The central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it?"
38
"He who avoids complaint invites happiness."
65
"Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it."
78
"Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy."
62
"Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger."
72
"Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God."
65
"Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed."
167
"Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path."
43
"God blesses him who helps his brother."
149
"Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity."
174
"Be good to others, that will protect you against evil."
43
"He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness."
170
"Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah."
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