All quotes
Every published quote, filterable by category, tone and mood.
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Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. — Orson Scott Card（Attribution unverified） |
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Football is not a contact sport. Its a collision sport — Duffy Daugherty（Attribution unverified） |
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An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived. — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel（Attribution unverified） |
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Sarcasm was a weapon for children. — Jennifer Echols（Attribution unverified） |
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It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest. — Laurence J. Peter（Attribution unverified） |
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You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. — John Ciardi（Attribution unverified） |
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"There are one or two elementary rules to be observed in the way of handling patients," he remarked, seating himself on the table and swinging his legs. "The most obvious is that you must never let them see that you want them. It should be pure condescension on your part seeing them at all; and the more difficulties you throw in the way of it, the more they think of it. Break your patients in early, and keep them well to heel." — Arthur Conan Doyle（Attribution unverified） |
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You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.' 'And yet it is still extremely funny. — Cecelia Ahern（Attribution unverified） |
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The sarcasm made a slight whistling noise as it flew over Loafers' head. — Eoin Colfer（Attribution unverified） |
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Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose. — Chuck Klosterman（Attribution unverified） |
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Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile. — Mahmoud Darwish（Attribution unverified） |
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Everyone who ever walked barefoot into his child's room late at night hates Legos. — Tony Kornheiser（Attribution unverified） |
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You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work. — Hy Gardner（Attribution unverified） |
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Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have. — Charles Kettering（Attribution unverified） |
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Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates. — Abbott Lawrence Lowell（Attribution unverified） |
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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. — Alan Alda（Attribution unverified） |
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I'm a silly guy, I love wit and cynicism and sarcasm. — Columbus Short（Attribution unverified） |
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Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck. — Eli Wallach（Attribution unverified） |
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court. — Finley Peter Dunne（Attribution unverified） |
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Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one. — Elbert Hubbard（Attribution unverified） |