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Aphorist Inspirational Quotes (5897)

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She is nether fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
John Heywood
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Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.
Mark Twain
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The egg is the symbol of perfection. Do you want an egg?
Mason Cooley
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Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
Mason Cooley
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It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.
Mark Twain
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The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
Mark Twain
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Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.
Franz Kafka
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EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.
Ambrose Bierce
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I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.
Mason Cooley
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I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.
Mark Twain
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Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.
Mark Twain
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NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.
Ambrose Bierce
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Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?
Mason Cooley
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If the current is right, one can drift to success.
Mason Cooley
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For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell.
John Heywood
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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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For the nature of women is closely allied to art
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
Mason Cooley
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WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.
Ambrose Bierce
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
Seneca the Younger
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In argument similes are like songs in love they describe much, but prove nothing.
Franz Kafka
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What is fruitful alone is true.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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