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tiny.ag/9qotdgih · submitted 1999
Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin.
tiny.ag/lctsfa7d · submitted 1997
Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.
Edouard Herriot, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/mtktl96r · submitted 1997
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
tiny.ag/ls2p5dcg · submitted 1997
Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.
tiny.ag/l4pyn7j8 · submitted 1997
I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.
tiny.ag/mb7skahf · submitted 1997
It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.
tiny.ag/mmclufba · submitted 1997
Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject... The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
tiny.ag/oxoy2gsu · submitted 1997
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
tiny.ag/bgvxtarp · submitted 1997
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/xgpm1arf · submitted 1999
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
tiny.ag/fsnkyl1j · submitted 1997
To generalize is to be an idiot.
tiny.ag/6thfwduq · submitted 1999
Romance is built on illusion, and when we love someone, we love the illusion they have created for us.
Roger Ebert, (from review of Boys Don't Cry, Oct. 22, 1999), in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/s3j4zgfm · submitted 1997
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
tiny.ag/pbhm4rie · submitted 1997
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
tiny.ag/8hodlqqe · submitted 1997
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.
tiny.ag/losztnwc · submitted 1997
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
tiny.ag/hobsgyde · submitted 1997
Why be a man when you can be a success?
tiny.ag/ujvv0yxq · submitted 1997
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
tiny.ag/iht7l65u · submitted 1997
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
tiny.ag/dkwhzql3 · submitted 1997
Joy is not in things, it is in us.