68.Quotes On Humor:Conversation:Luck:Trust:Praise:Tastebility-Part 1

"That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.." -A. Whitney Brown-

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"I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.".-Franklin D. Roosevelt-

"Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.".-Ludwig Wittgenstein-

"Cynicism is the humor of hatred.".-Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.".-Arthur C. Clarke-

"Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined;Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-

"I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence - this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.".-Lord George Byron-

"The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.".-Wyndham Lewis-

"As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.".-Clive James-

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"Modest egotism is the salt of conversation.".-Henry van Dyke-

"The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.".-Oscar Wilde-

"It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.".-Baltasar Gracian-

"The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.".-Charles Luckman-

"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.".-Iris Murdoch-

"Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast;in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.".-Ovid-

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"Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.".-Alexander Pope-

"Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.".-Helen Rowland-

"Trust me not at all, or all in all.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-

"Trust one who has tried.".-Virgil-

"Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.".-Ambrose Bierce-

"Usually we praise only to be praised.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-

"Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.".-Nicholas Boileau-

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain;And drinking largely sobers us again.".-Alexander Pope-

"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.".-Charlie Brown-

"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.".-Henry Brooks Adams-

"Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.".-Oscar Wilde-

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"What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.".-Adlai E. Stevenson-

"We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries. The feminist of the fin de siècle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way.".-Camille Paglia-

"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.".-Henry Kissinger-

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"No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.".-Napoleon Hill-

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