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The biggest bore of all is he who is overflowing with congratulations

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• Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Wine
  • Him

• In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Internet
  • Admittedly

• Now I've literally become neighborhood watch. I call 911 on people. I'm the old man driving 25-miles-per-hour down Sunset.

  

  Bob Saget
  • People
  • Driving
  • Sunset

• If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.

  

  James O'Shaughnessy
  • Live
  • Focus

• Most of the books that I've written have been focused on, sort of, the individual, and sort of, either a voice, a personal voice, or a kind of transforming event where they step forward to fight for something they value.

  

  Caroline Kennedy
  • Value

• I always had a belief in myself, and I started wondering if it was founded.

  

  Donny Most

• Fear requires a desire to exist in the future.

  

  John Twelve Hawks
  • Future
  • Fear
  • Desire

• We are a multitude of selves, and the sooner we learn that, the better. And in that rich alliance of psychological Aspects lies the very secret of our practical operative stability. Only because we change our positions constantly in reference to the psyche and the world are we able to manipulate physically and translate inner experience into sense terms.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • World
  • Experience
  • Lies

• Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Giving
  • Style
  • Creative

• It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Age
  • Youth

• You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!

  

  Sarah Hyland
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Kidney

• I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.

  

  Hayley Mills
  • Acting
  • Creature

• I'm still a nobody, when am I not going to be a nobody?

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Stills
  • Nobody

• Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?

  

  Wally Herger
  • People
  • Peace
  • Should

• Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Remember
  • House
  • Peace

• From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Brother

• When we speak of the commerce with our American colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Truth
  • American
  • Imagination

• A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.

  

  Arthur Waley
  • Word
  • Horses
  • Overtake

• Art makes people do a double take and then, if they're looking at the picture, maybe they'll read the text under it that says, "Come to Union Square, For Anti-War Meeting Friday." I've been operating that way ever since - that art is a means to an end rather than simply an end in itself. In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Art
  • Picture
  • Union

• The biggest bore of all is he who is overflowing with congratulations

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Congratulations
  • Bores