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Miscellany
Miscellaneous Quotes
"As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum." ~ Jean Giraudoux
"Footprints on the sands of time will never be made sitting down." ~ Evan Esar
"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others." ~ Jules Renard
"If you have made up your mind that you cannot do it you're absoutely right." ~ Evan Esar
"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it." ~ Mae West
"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian." ~ Robert Orben
"It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then like most clichés, that cliché is untrue." ~ Stephen Fry
"It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth." ~ George Burns
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is a superstition. It does not exist in nature" ~ Helen Keller
"No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth." ~ Jean Giraudoux
"The things that count most are things you can't count." ~ Evan Esar
"Unless you are informed, scepticism becomes prejudice" ~ Roger Ford
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." ~ Einstein
"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not." ~ Mark Twain
What's YOUR favourite quotation?
Do you know any misquotations?
Do you have a correction?
contributions :
please send the words, who said them - with as much detail as you can; why it was said (or not said), when, to whom ... whatever you can. I always acknowledge any help.
Contributions to Quotations:
David Shein [06], Clark Moran, Geoffrey K. Braden [05]