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Quotes of the Day
Four humorous quotations each day from The Quotations Page
Robertson Davies
"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."
Anatole France
"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another."
Charles Peters
"Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy."
Anonymous
"God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project."
Isaac Newton
"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."
Lillian Hellman
"Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view."
Clare Booth Luce
"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."
e e cummings
"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."
Sidney J. Harris
"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future."
Bob Hope
"People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy."
Margo Kaufman
"The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can."
Joseph Heller
"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."
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