Quotes

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"It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help."
-- Judith Martin (Miss Manners)

"We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society."
-- Miss Manners (Judith Martin)

"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Ergotism is what you get if you overuse the word "therefore". Egotism on the other hand is a form of "I" strain."
-- Paul Martin

Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.
-- Marabeth Madsen

Do you know the difference between involvement and commitment? Think of ham and eggs. The chicken is involved. The pig is committed.
-- Martina Navratilova

I don't want to be understandable. I want to be felt.
-- Martha Graham

"If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time."
-- Edith Wharton

Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.
-- Robert Benchley

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain

There are two ways spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
-- Edith Wharton

Every psychic investigator of [the medium] Mrs. Piper was impressed by her simplicity and honesty. It never occurred to them that no charlatan ever achieves greatness by acting like a charlatan. No professional spy acts like a spy. No card cheat behaves at the table like a card cheat.
-- Martin W. Gardner