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Sir Francis Bacon “If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.” Tom Stoppard “Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.” [...]

Bill Vaughan “If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.”

Robert Frost “You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.” Noel Coward “Television is for appearing on – not for looking at.” Michael Crichton “Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.”

Charles Caleb Colton “If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.” Robert Orben “There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all.” Voltaire “A witty [...]

Thomas Jefferson “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. ” Jean-Paul Sartre “Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.” Benjamin Disraeli “The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.” Sacha Guitry “You [...]

Don Marquis “When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’” Rita Rudner “I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.” Cullen Hightower “Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.” Albert Camus “Too many have dispensed [...]

P. J. O’Rourke “Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” Rita Mae Brown “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” Margaret Thatcher “I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.” Lily Tomlin “Ninety-eight percent of the adults [...]

Randall Jarrell “I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can’t read any poetry.” P. J. Plauger “My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what’s really going on to be scared.” Ken Hakuta “Lack [...]

Sean O’Casey “All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.” Francois de La Rochefoucauld “We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.” Doug Larson “Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.”

Henry David Thoreau “Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” Cullen Hightower “Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.” Doctor Who “What’s the use of a good quotation if you can’t change it?” Margaret Halsey “Whenever I dwell for any length of [...]