Quote #3965
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are...
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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b)...
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail if it...
Quote #4140
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle...
Quote #32489
Barnum was wrong – it’s more like every 30 seconds.
Quote #34204
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so...
Quote #33597
We ought not to judge of men’s merits by their qualifications, but by the...
Quote #19944
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Quote #21120
Modern cynics and skeptics … see no harm in paying those to whom they...
Quote #8501
Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.