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Quotes from authors and other famous people


"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." - Thoreau

"What's another word for 'Thesaurus'?" - Steven Wright

"In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular." - Laurence J. Peter

"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees." - Kahlil Gibran

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost

"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none." - Benjamin Franklin

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could." - Emerson

"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them." - Jane Austin

"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra." - Fran Lebowitz

"People are more fun than anybody." Dorothy Parker

"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause." Mark Twain

“I wanted to do something nice for my mother-in-law so I bought her a chair. Now no one will let me plug it in.” - H. Youngman

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.” - Lewis Carroll

“Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” - Erma Bombeck

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” - Mark Twain

‘When asked, “How do you write?” I invariably answer, “One word at a time.”’ - Stephen King

“You’ve got to be honest; if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” - George Burns

“I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game ‘Monopoly’” - Steven Wright

“They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.” - Dorothy Parker

“Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” - Mark Twain