Me, Myself and I: Slightly More Serious Quotes

Slightly More Serious Quotes

Emphasis on the slightly. . .

"So it goes" -Kurt Vonnegut

"Words are like rapiers; one must always use them with precision, and never allow them to grow dull." -anonymous

"I'm not OK, and you're not OK, and thats OK." -William Sloane Coffin

"A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it." -George Bernard Shaw

"The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it." -J. Robert Oppenheimer

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh" -George Bernard Shaw

"Life is too important a thing to ever talk seriously about" -Oscar Wilde

"We are all people of God, for God made us all people" -anonymous

"Each of us has two educations; the first is that given to us by others. The second, and more important, is that which we give ourselves." -John Randolph of Roanoke

"Whatever you may fight for, believe in. Whatever you may believe in, fight for." -anonymous

"Public office is a public trust" -Grover Cleveland's speechwriter

"No insignificant person was ever born." -George W. Bush's speechwriter

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone."-Bill Cosby

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"Insanity is the only rational response to the beatings and batterings dealt out so casually by this supposedly sane universe." -anonymous

"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday Afternoon." -Susan Ertz

"When they come down from their ivory towers, idealists are apt to walk straight into the gutter." -Logan P. Smith

"To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody." -Quentin Crisp

"The Devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner." -Karl Kraus

"Woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity." -Eric Hoffer

"Nature is a hanging judge." -unknown

"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

"The worshipper is the father of the Gods." -H. L. Mencken

"Always forgive you enemies--nothing annoys them so much." -Oscar Wilde

"Those whom we call insane are merely those who, having recognized the hillarity of the world around them, have chosen to respond in kind." -anonymous

"Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes." -Norman Douglas

"There's one way to find out if an man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, then you know he is crooked." -Mark Twain

"The true misanthrope despises only two things. The first of these is being ignored. The second is being paid attention to." -anonymous

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