Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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The office of the President is such a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
-- Jimmy Bresli...
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchai...
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?
-- Natalie Clifford Barney...
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butle...
Quoting: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. -- Ambrose Bierce
The best defence against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.
-- The British Army Journal...
Dawn: The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh.
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Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devel's Dictionary
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devel's Dictionary

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