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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night ( Steve Martin quotation )
A room without books is like a body without a soul ( Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation )
Absolute power corrupts absolutely ( quotation by Lord Acton )
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All I know is what I read in the papers ( Will Rogers quotation )
All men are cremated equal ( Spike Milligan line )
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt ( Charles M. Schulz quotation )
All's for the best in the best of all possible worlds ( Voltaire quotation - in Candide )
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much ( Oscar Wilde quotation )
Architecture is music frozen in time ( Friedrich von Schelling quotation )
Be the change that you wish to see in the world ( Mahatma Gandhi quotation )
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken ( Oscar Wilde quotation )
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education ( Mark Twain quotation )
Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! ( line from the movie 25th Hour )
Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard ( Spike Milligan line )
Cogito ergo sum ( Rene Descartes quotation )
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Contraceptives should be used on all conceivable occasions ( Spike Milligan line )
Crisis, what crisis? ( Jim Callaghan quotation )
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire ( George Bernard Shaw quotation )
Dead white European male ( derogatory
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to someone who has an unjustified reputation )
Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars ( line from the movie Now, Voyager )
Don't
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Everything you can imagine is real ( Pablo Picasso quotation )
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains ( Thomas Carlyle quotation )
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration ( Thomas Edison quotation )
Get busy living, or get busy dying ( line from the movie The Shawshank Redemption )
He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches ( George Bernard Shaw quotation )
He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy ( line from the movie Life of Brian )
Hell is other people ( Jean-Paul Sartre quotation )
History is bunk ( Henry Ford quotation )
Houston, we have a problem ( John Swigert Jr. quotation )
I can resist everything except temptation ( Oscar Wilde quotation )
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work ( Thomas Edison quotation )
I have nothing to declare but my genius ( Oscar Wilde quotation )
I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat ( Winston Churchill quotation )
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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by ( Douglas Adams quotation )
I told you I was ill ( Spike Milligan line inscribed on his gravestone )
I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore! ( line from the movie Network )
I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens ( Woody Allen quotation )
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself ( Albert Einstein quotation )
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything ( Malcolm X quotation )
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything ( Mark Twain quotation )
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on ( Robert Frost quotation )
Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results ( Albert Einstein quotation )
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not ( Andre Gide quotation )
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it ( Maurice Switzer quotation )
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages ( Friedrich Nietzsche quotation )
Kiss me Hardy ( Admiral Nelson quotation )
Leave the gun, take the cannoli ( line from The Godfather )
Let them eat cake ( Marie Antoinette quotation - attributed )
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon ( Woody Allen line )
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans ( John Lennon quotation )
Line is full of misery and lonliness and it's over much too soon ( Woody Allen line )
Mama always said that life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get ( line from the movie Forrest Gump )
Monstrous carbuncle on the face of an old friend ( Prince Charles quotation )
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else ( Woody Allen line )
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow ( Mark Twain quotation )
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent ( Eleanor Roosevelt quotation )
One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind ( Neil Armstrong quotation )
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Religion is the opiate of the masses ( Karl Marx quotation )
Riddle wrapped up in an enigma ( Winston Churchill quotation )
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Run Forrest, Run! ( line from the movie Forrest Gump )
Show me the spot ( Abraham Lincoln quotation )
So many books, so little time ( Frank Zappa quotation )
That which does not kill us makes us stronger ( Friedrich Nietzsche quotation )
The lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb won't get much sleep ( Woody Allen line )
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read ( Mark Twain quotation )
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference ( Elie Wiesel quotation )
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid ( Jane Austen quotation )
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong ( quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
The truth is rarely pure and never simple ( Oscar Wilde quotation )
The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable ( Oscar Wilde quotation about foxhunting )
These go to eleven ( line from the movie This Is Spinal Tap )
This above all: to thine own self be true ( William Shakespeare )
To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! ( line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda )
To infinty and beyond ( line from the movie Toy Story )
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all ( Oscar Wilde quotation )
Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime ( Tony Blair political slogan )
Try everything once, except incest and folk dancing ( Sir Thomas Beecham quotation )
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars ( Oscar Wilde quotation )
Well, nobody's perfect ( line from the movie Some Like It Hot )
What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course ( Marilyn Monroe quotation )
Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away ( Robert Maynard Hutchins quotation )
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're right ( Henry Ford quotation )
Without music, life would be a mistake ( Friedrich Nietzsche quotation )
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough ( Mae West quotation )
You smell, I stink ( Samuel Johnson quotation )
You've never had it so good ( Harold Macmillan quotation )