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Category: Quotations

Posted on May 27, 2021

“Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.”—Lily Tomlin, American comedian, 1939-

Posted on May 25, 2021May 25, 2021

“Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.”—Jane Ellice Hopkins, British social activist, 1836-1904

Posted on May 22, 2021

“Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910

Posted on May 21, 2021May 21, 2021

“One keeps on forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.”—Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette), French author, 1873-1954

Posted on May 20, 2021

“A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.”—George R. R. Martin, American novelist, 1948-

Posted on May 19, 2021May 19, 2021

“It is easier to make war than peace.”—Georges Clemenceau, French Prime Minister, 1841-1929

Posted on May 18, 2021May 18, 2021

“All experience is an arch, to build upon.”—Henry Brooks Adams, American historian, 1838-1918

Posted on May 17, 2021

“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”—Sir William Osler, Canadian medical educator, 1849-1919

Posted on May 16, 2021May 16, 2021

“The further a society drifts from the truth the more it will hate those that speak it.”—George Orwell, English novelist, 1903-1950

Posted on May 15, 2021May 15, 2021

“All right everyone, line up alphabetically, accordingly to your height.”—Casey Stengel, American baseball manager, 1890-1975

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