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#1

“He was a windbag. He made a great many orations, and I imagine he did a very good job, but he was still a windbag”
― Harry Truman

tags: humor

6 likes

#2

“There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange.”
― Daniel Webster

tags: truth

37 likes

#3

“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
― Sid Ziff

tags: bad-reviews, book, humorist, misattributed-dorothy-parker, wit

1617 likes

#4

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: beauty, classic-insult, humor, ugly

3583 likes

#5

“If I didn't care for fun and such,
I'd probably amount to much.
But I shall stay the way I am,
Because I do not give a damn.”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

tags: apathy, fame, pleasure

816 likes

#6

“Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: disapproval, humor, wordplay

1426 likes

#7

“Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.”
― Dorothy Parker

587 likes

#8

“His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.”
― Dorothy Parker

203 likes

#9

“I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: humor-writing-money

237 likes

#10

“Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: spring-humor

146 likes

#11

“She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: bad-reviews

171 likes

#12

“And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: flaubert, humor, on-writing, writing

99 likes

#13

“There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.”
― Dorothy Parker

187 likes

#14

“She can sit up and beg, and
she can give her paw —
I don't say she will, but she can.”
― Dorothy Parker

45 likes

#15

“They say of me, and so they should,
It's doubtful if I come to good.”
― Dorothy Parker

42 likes

#16

“Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.”
― John Jakes

tags: be-yourself, on-writing

78 likes

#17

“We are all dying of life.”
― John Jakes, North and South

13 likes

#18

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”
― Markus Herz

tags: books, health, humor, misattributed-mark-twain, misprints

13740 likes

#19

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

tags: life

109426 likes

#20

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

43939 likes

#21

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

18247 likes

#22

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
― Alan Moore

tags: life

6791 likes

#23

“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

tags: god, good-intentions, humanity, religion

1983 likes

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