Beer Quotes - Page 26

• I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, Self, Add

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• It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

  Tom Stoppard

  Witty, Truth, Honesty

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.49, University of Michigan Press

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Book, Wish

  "The Lost Road and Other Writings". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien. Chapter: "Alboin Errol", 1987.

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• Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Men, Giving

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• Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

  Mark Twain

  Atheist, Prayer, Book

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• The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

  Mark Twain

  Kindness, Book, Communication

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.520, Courier Corporation

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• Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

  Mark Twain

  Hurt, Rain, Food

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.189, Univ of California Press

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• It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Country, Freedom

  Following the Equator ch. 20, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Book, Originality

  Notebook, 2 July 1867

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• The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

  Voltaire

  Book, Ignorant, Drink

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• A witty saying proves nothing.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Witty, Humorous

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• Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

  Tom Waits

  Friends, Pain, Real

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• Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

  Orson Welles

  Book, Order, Drink

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• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

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• Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Book

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

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• Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Pain, Book

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.7, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Drinking, Evil

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Why was I born with such contemporaries?

  Oscar Wilde

  Sarcastic, Book, Sarcasm

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• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Book, School

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.284, OUP Oxford

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• When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same.

  Henry Winkler

  Parent, Earth, Cunninghams

  "Fictional character: Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli". "Happy Days", 1974–1984.

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• We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.

  Zakk Wylde

  Men, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Wise, Teamwork

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