Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Miscellaneous.

The repository contains 143 quotes in the category “Miscellaneous.”
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Nothing in fine print is ever good news.

Andy Rooney
1919 —     

We can’t all, and some just don’t. That’s all there is to it.

A. A. Milne
1882 — 1956

Gossip is the act of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Walter Winchell
1897 — 1972

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Vincent van Gogh
1853 — 1890

You never know what you can do without until you try.

Franklin P. Adams
1881 — 1960

A little inaccuracy contains a world of explanation.

Aryes

Be careful what you set your heart upon, for it will surely be yours.

James Baldwin
1924 — 1987

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Honoré de Balzac
1799 — 1850

Legitimate information is rarely interesting.

Austen Biddelcombe

I’ve been the piece of straw on the back of one too many camels.

Cherith Dorn

The forest is magnificent, yet it contains no perfect trees.

Gye Fram

Let us spare where we may, so that we may spend where we should.

Thomas Fuller
1654 — 1734

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

Isaac Goldberg

He who sleeps on the floor will not fall off the bed.

Robert Gronock

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

Ernest Hemingway
1899 — 1961

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

Cullen Hightower

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.

Eric Hoffer
1902 — 1983

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.

John Andrew Holmes
1874 —     

The way to be nothing is to do nothing.

Howe

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

Jessel

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