Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Augustine Birrell Libraries are not made, they grow.
    Augustine Birrell
    British Liberal Party politician (1850 - 1933)
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  • V. S. Pritchett Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
    V. S. Pritchett
    British writer and literary critic (1900 - 1997)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Josh Billings Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Socrates Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Anton Chekhov Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Mark Twain Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Woody Guthrie Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
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  • Paul Gauguin Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
    Paul Gauguin
    French artist (1848 - 1903)
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  • Albert J. Nock Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Bernard Berenson Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Alexander Herzen Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Billy Boyd Life in LA is not lying in the sun for months. It is having a 4pm meeting and leaving at noon to sit in traffic for four hours. It's not glam.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • Don Piatt Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.
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  • Tom Stoppard Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Vladimir Nabokov Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Life is a miracle, and we need to not fear trying to achieve our potential and reveal the remarkable creation we and all living things are and that our Creator has built into us the ability to induce self-healing.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Matthew McConaughey Life is a series of commas, not periods.
    Matthew McConaughey
    American actor, director, producer, writer, and co-teacher (1969 - )
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