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    “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
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Résumé
    Razors pain you,
    Rivers are damp,
    Acids stain you,
    And drugs cause cramp.
    Guns aren't lawful,
    Nooses give,
    Gas smells awful.
    You might as well live.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope
    tags: dark-humor, humor, suicide
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  • #3
    Dorothy Parker
    “Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: disapproval, humor, wordplay
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  • #4
    Dorothy Parker
    “I like to have a martini,
    Two at the very most.
    After three I'm under the table,
    after four I'm under my host.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker
    tags: drinking, drunken-behaviour, humor
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  • #5
    Dorothy Parker
    “What fresh hell is this?”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker
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  • #6
    Dorothy Parker
    “You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
    tags: horticulture, puns
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  • #7
    Dorothy Parker
    “That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: epitaph, humor, the-new-yorker
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  • #8
    Dorothy Parker
    “That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, While Rome Burns
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  • #9
    Plato
    “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
    ― Plato
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    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    ― Plato
    tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance
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  • #11
    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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  • #12
    Plato
    “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
    ― Plato
    tags: discipline, education, mentoring, philosophy
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  • #13
    “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
    ― Richard Lingard, A Letter of Advice to a Young Gentleman Leaving the University Concerning His Behaviour and Conversation in the World
    tags: misattributed-to-plato, paraphrased, people, play
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  • #14
    Plato
    “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy, politics
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  • #15
    Plato
    “good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
    ― Plato
    tags: laws, people
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  • #16
    Plato
    “In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”
    ― Plato
    tags: philosophy, politics
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  • #17
    Plato
    “Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
    ― Plato
    tags: courage, fear
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  • #18
    Plato
    “Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
    We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",
    in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".”
    ― Plato
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  • #19
    Ovid
    “Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
    ― Ovid, Heroides
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  • #20
    Ovid
    “Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.”
    ― Ovid
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  • #21
    Ovid
    “I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.”
    ― Ovid
    tags: love, poetry, words
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  • #22
    Ovid
    “I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth. ”
    ― Ovid, Metamorphoses
    tags: birthday
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  • #23
    Ovid
    “Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)”
    ― Ovid
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  • #24
    Ovid
    “Every lover is a soldier.”
    ― Ovid, Amores
    tags: love, lover, soldier
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  • #25
    Ovid
    “I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.”
    ― Ovid, Metamorphoses
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  • #26
    Ovid
    “All right, boy, skewer me. I've dropped my defenses,
    I'm an easy victim. Why, by now
    Your arrows practically know their own way to the target
    And feel less at home in their quiver than in me.”
    ― Ovid, The Erotic Poems
    tags: ovid
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  • #27
    Ovid
    “Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.”
    ― Ovid
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  • #28
    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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  • #29
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
    tags: greatness
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  • #30
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “To be is to do - Socrates

    To do is to be - Sartre

    Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humor
    1778 likes



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