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Comedy Writer Inspirational Quotes (429)

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
Menander
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Aristophanes
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A good disposition I far prefer to gold for gold is the gift of fortune goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.
Plautus
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We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus. Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]
Plautus
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In everything the middle course is the best everything in excess brings trouble.
Plautus
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A mouse relies not solely on one hole.
Plautus
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Dear God, I understand that if I fail to believe in you, I'll burn in hell for eternity. Thanks for being such a good sport about it.
Scott Dikkers
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The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.
Thomas Moore
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It is good to love in a moderate degree to distraction, it is not good but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master's doing.
Plautus
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I respect your right to hold your religious beliefs, and if they help you, I think that's great. I would, however, like to inform you that you are a raving kook.
Scott Dikkers
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A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.
Plautus
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I want women to be the subject, not the object.
Jill Soloway
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He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.
Plautus
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No man is really honest none of us is above the influence of gain.
Aristophanes
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Modesty should accompany youth.
Plautus
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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
Aristophanes
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It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
Plautus
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All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
Thomas Moore
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So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses.
Antonin Artaud
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The truth of life lies in the impulsiveness of matter. The mind of man has been poisoned by concepts. Do not ask him to be content, ask him only to be calm, to believe that he has found his place. But only the madman is really calm.
Antonin Artaud
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If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.
Antonin Artaud
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If most of the reviewers are white cis men, if most of the distributors are white cis men, most of the executives in history have been white cis men. Most of the people who have been giving awards to people are people who've already been in the business - retired white cis men. They've been creating a body of narrative forever.
Jill Soloway
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
Plautus
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I have plenty of machinery around me what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.
Thomas Moore
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