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Quotations: Definitions
- One man’s religion is another man’s belly laugh. - Isaac Asimov
- Patriotism is the virture of the vicious. - Oscar Wilde
- Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. - Oscar Wilde
- Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick
- Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. - George S. Patton
- Pomegranate: The Rubik's cube of fruit. - John Stewart
- Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. -Anon.
- Wisdom is learning what to overlook. - William James
- A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. - Fred Allen
- Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. - George Bernard Shaw
- Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. - Albert Einstein
- Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo. - H.G. Wells
- A heritic is a man who sees with his own eyes. - Gotthold Lessing
- A conservative is a person who doesn't think anything should be done for the first time. - Frank Vanerlip
- Television - a medium, so called because it is neither rare nor well done. - Ernie Kovacs
- Perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year. - Henry Beard
- The difference between sex and love is sex relieves tension and love causes it. - Woody Allen
- A committee is twelve people doing the work of one. - John F. Kennedy
- A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence. - Brander Matthews
- Courage is grace under pressure. - Ernest Hemingway
- Puritanism - The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy. - H.L. Mencken
- Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. - Howard Scott
- Cynicism - The intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. - Russell Lynes
- What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde
- Life is a long lesson in humility. - James M. Barrie
- Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. - Erica Jong
- A jury consists of twelve people chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost
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