“At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.”
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“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.”
“It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.”
“Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.”
“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.”
“When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.”
“The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.”
“Now on the first day of Christmas, my homeboy gave to me A sack of the krazy glue and told me to smoke it up slowly. Now on the second day of Christmas, my homeboy gave to me A fifth of Hendog and told me to take my mind off that weed. Now by the third day of Christmas, my big homeboy gave to me A whole lot of everything, and it wasn't nuthin' but game to me.”
“Nothing like a little judicious levity.”
“Go the extra mile. It makes your boss look like an incompetent slacker.”
“Why are they called buildings when they’re already finished? Shouldn’t they be called builts?”
“I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'”
“Plan for what is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small. The difficult things in this world must be done while they are easy, the greatest things in the world must be done while they are still small. For this reason sages never do what is great, and this is why they achieve greatness.”
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
“An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.”
“JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.”
“The curve is more powerful than the sword.”
“If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.”
“Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.”
“We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.”