The repository contains 143 quotes in the category “Miscellaneous.”
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
There are two kinds of light: the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
James Thurber
1894 — 1961
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
1894 — 1961
Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
Things that are not at all, are never lost.
Christopher Marlowe
1564 — 1593
He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.
Christopher Marlowe
1564 — 1593
Pleasure-seekers never find theirs.
Elbert Hubbard
1856 — 1915
Good hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even when you wish they were.
We’re living in an age where lemonade is made with artificial ingredients and furniture polish is made with real lemons.
The suburbs are where they cut down all the trees and then name the streets after them.
These days, the problem with many neighborhoods is that there are more hoods than neighbors.
Prison inmates are treated to cable TV, hot meals and a college education, while on the outside some people can only afford these things through a life of crime.
Many a good egg ends up getting beaten.
A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed, but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttlefish.
G. K. Chesterton
1874 — 1936
People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it’s really a pretty good way of finding out something a person doesn’t want you to know.
George Carlin
1937 — 2008
A miracle, even if it is a lousy miracle, is still a miracle.
Teller
1948 —
I’ve never thought there’s much value to “following in the footsteps of the greats.” See, if you could follow in their footsteps, they would not be the greats.
Teller
1948 —
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
1880 — 1956
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