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War3 quotes
You're talking about mass murder, General, not war! — President Merkin Muffley · 1964Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room! — President Merkin Muffley · 1964When the rich wage war it's the poor who die. — Jean-Paul Sartre · 1951Self-hatred2 quotes
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself. — Mark Twain · 1897Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. — George Santayana · 1910Travel2 quotes
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. — George Moore · 1916What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn't have lost if you hadn't left home in the first place. — Bill Bryson · 1991Adults and children1 quote
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery · 1943Adversity1 quote
The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn't enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline. — Douglas Adams · 1978America1 quote
America is great indeed. Imagine a country so free, one can throw glass on the streets! — Prince Akeem · 1988American freedom1 quote
America is great indeed. Imagine a country so free, one can throw glass on the streets! — Prince Akeem · 1988American life1 quote
What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca what were you doing down by the watermelons? — Allen Ginsberg · 1956Bigotry1 quote
There is no racial bigotry here! I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops, or greasers! Here, you are all equally worthless! — Gunnery Sargent Hartman · 1987Circle of life1 quote
A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. — William Shakespeare · 1616Citizen and state1 quote
Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another? — Bertolt Brecht · 1956Civilization1 quote
Well, they're saved from the blessings of civilization. — Doc Josiah Boone · 1939Consumerism1 quote
What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca what were you doing down by the watermelons? — Allen Ginsberg · 1956Days off1 quote
That was stupid. How the hell you gonna get fired on your day off? — Mr. Jones · 1995Democracy1 quote
Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another? — Bertolt Brecht · 1956Economic inequality1 quote
The majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. — Anatole France · 1894Effects of time1 quote
Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. — Hector Berlioz · 1856Ego1 quote
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself. — Mark Twain · 1897Equality1 quote
There is no racial bigotry here! I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops, or greasers! Here, you are all equally worthless! — Gunnery Sargent Hartman · 1987Escalation1 quote
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility. — Thomas De Quincey · 1839Expectations1 quote
Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more. — Mark Twain · 1878Failure1 quote
Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall. — William Shakespeare · 1616Finishing a task1 quote
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. — Jerome K. Jerome · 1889Forgiveness1 quote
You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing. — Jane Austen · 1813Freedom1 quote
The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. — Herbert Agar · 1942Getting away with it1 quote
Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall. — William Shakespeare · 1616Getting fired1 quote
That was stupid. How the hell you gonna get fired on your day off? — Mr. Jones · 1995Good and evil1 quote
For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. — Apostle Paul · 56Human nature1 quote
For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. — Apostle Paul · 56