I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? Jean Kerr

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"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
Winston Churchill

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."
Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"
Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; Iâll waste no time reading it."
Moses Hadas

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
Abraham Lincoln

"Iâve had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasnât it."
Groucho Marx

"I didnât attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
Mark Twain

"He has no enemies , but is intensely disliked by his friends."
Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend⦠if you have one."
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second⦠if there is one."
Winston Churchill, in response

"I feel so miserable without you, itâs almost like having you here."
Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
John Bright

"Iâve just learned about his illness. Letâs hope itâs nothing trivial."
Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others."
Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
Paul Keating

"He had delusions of adequacy."
Walter Kerr

"Thereâs nothing wrong with you that reincarnation wonât cure."
Jack E. Leonard

"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt."
Robert Redford

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge."
Thomas Brackett Reed

"He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them."
James Reston (about Richard Nixon)

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts⦠for support rather than illumination."
Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"He has Van Goghâs ear for music."
Billy Wilder

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." - That quote motivates me to join parliament

JEFF KENNETT: This poor new friendless leader. Sad, miserable, little man that he is. Miserable!

Churchill has to be one of the most quotable people ever.
âI am easily satisfied with the very best.â

And possibly the greatest call of all time:
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

Here are some of my favorites:
"At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie".-Paulo Coelho

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." James Dean

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." Aldous Huxley

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down." - Jimmy Durante

"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship." Sharon Stone

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."-John F. Kennedy

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"- Abraham Lincoln

"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." - (Mark Twain)

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." Sir Winston Churchill

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." George Burns

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'." Friedrich Nietzsche

I Love Oscar Wilde quotes:

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that it must be altered every 6 months.

Most modern calenders mar the sweet simplicity of life by reminding us that each passing day is the anniversary of some completely uninteresting event.

That's an awesome quote

Most modern calenders mar the sweet simplicity of life by reminding us that each passing day is the anniversary of some completely uninteresting event.

"I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."

Upon brainstorming today I came across this, its so positive and uplifting for those in fear of stepping out of their comfort zone:

I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards.
~ Jim Rohn ~