“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.” — George Orwell
Quotations
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“Nothing is more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.” — Winston Churchill
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“Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.” — Aaron Copland
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“Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.” — Jean-Paul Sartre
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“Who would write, who had any thing better to do?” — Lord Byron
Water Music
On seeing Niagara Falls, Gustav Mahler exclaimed: “Fortissimo at last!”
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“I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.” — Charles Lamb
“Beware of People Who Dislike Cats”
Irish sayings:
- “You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
- “It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.”
- “A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures.”
- “You’ll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.”
- “Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die.”
- “Don’t give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.”
- “Anything will fit a naked man.”
- “The only cure for love is marriage.”
And “He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.”
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“Humankind cannot stand very much reality.” — T.S. Eliot
Freud’s Couch
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The couch used by Sigmund Freud during psychoanalytic sessions. “I have found little that is good about human beings,” he wrote. “In my experience most of them are trash.”