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Here are October’s additions to the one-liners collection.

  • “There’s no device known to mankind that will prevent people from being idiots.” — Mark Rasch
  • “I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.” — Nancy Mitford
  • “History is a set of lies agreed upon.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
  • “The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
  • “You cannot lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.” — Napoleon Bonaparte
  • “I am the captain of my soul.” — Nelson Mandela
  • “Quitting is leading, too.” — Nelson Mandela
  • “It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.” — Niccolo Machiavelli
  • “Never was anything great achieved without danger.” — Niccolo Machiavelli
  • “Politics have no relation to morals.” — Niccolo Machiavelli
  • “A writer needs a pen, a painter needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.” — Orson Welles
  • “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.” — Orson Welles
  • “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — Oscar Wilde
  • “Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.” — Ozzy Osbourne
  • “Could be worse… I could be Sting.” — Ozzy Osbourne
  • “Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.” — Ozzy Osbourne

Here are September’s additions to the one-liners collection.

  • “Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.” — Mae West
  • “Don’t cry for a man who’s left you – the next one might fall for your smile.” — Mae West
  • “Don’t keep a man guessing for too long – he’s sure to find the answer somewhere else.” — Mae West
  • “I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.” — Mae West
  • “I’ll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.” — Mae West
  • “If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right.” — Mae West
  • “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” — Margaret Thatcher
  • “I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.” — Marilyn Monroe
  • “Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” — Mark Twain
  • “Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.” — Mark Twain
  • “Name of the greatest inventor. Accident.” — Mark Twain
  • “Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” — Mark Twain
  • “The time is always right to do the right thing.” — Martin Luther King
  • “We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” — Martin Luther King
  • “The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.” — Maya Angelou
  • “Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.” — Mary Pickford
  • “The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” — Mary Pickford
  • “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” — Mohandas Gandhi
  • “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” — Mother Teresa
  • “Live simply so other may simply live.” — Mother Teresa

Here are the August additions to the one-liners collection. Mostly motivational quotes this time.

  • “Religion is the Opium for the masses.” — Karl Marx
  • “If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it to himself.” — Kris Kristofferson
  • “Friends are nothing but a known enemy.” — Kurt Cobain
  • “I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.” — Kurt Cobain
  • “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.” — Kurt Cobain
  • “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” — Lao Tzu
  • “Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.” — Lao Tzu
  • “He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty.” — Lao Tzu
  • “To lead the people, walk behind them.” — Lao Tzu
  • “Study without desire spoils memory. and it retains nothing that it takes in.” — Leonardo da Vinci
  • “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” — Lou Holtz
  • “Winners and losers aren’t born, they are the products of how they think.” — Lou Holtz

For July I’ve wrapped up some nice one-liners by people on J. Lots of Johns for some reason. Enjoy.

  • “A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.” — Jim Morrison
  • “Whoever controls the media controls the mind.” — Jim Morrison
  • “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.” — Jim Rohn
  • “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” — Jim Rohn
  • “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” — Jim Rohn
  • “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” — Jimi Hendrix
  • “Fear is the foundation of most governments.” — John Adams
  • “Forgive you enemies, but never forget their names.” — John F. Kennedy
  • “Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.” — John Lennon
  • “Life is hard; it’s harder if you’re stupid.” — John Wayne
  • “Don’t let making a living prevent you from making a life.” — John Wooden
  • “Don’t mistake activity for achievement.” — John Wooden
  • “Listen if you want to be heard.” — John Wooden
  • “The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.” — John Wooden
  • “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” — Joseph Addison
  • “History has shown there are no invincible armies.” — Joseph Stalin
  • “Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.” — Joseph Stalin

The Formula One race from Montréal was red flagged for a good two hours and right now we’re running behind the safety car. I used the time to dig up a few more one-liners for you. Enjoy.

  • “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” — Dalai Lama
  • “In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.” — Dalai Lama
  • “Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.” — Dalai Lama
  • “Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.” — Dale Carnegie
  • “Most of us have for more courage than we ever dreamed possible.” — Dale Carnegie
  • “You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.” — Dale Carnegie
  • “The cure for boredom in curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” — Dorothy Parker
  • “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.” — Douglas Adams
  • “It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “What one has to do usually can be done.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “You always admire what you really don’t understand.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.” — Elvis Presley
  • “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • “There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • “A politician divides mankind into two classes: Tools and enemies.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “He who has a why to live can bear with almost any who.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “There are no facts, only interpretations.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.” — G.K. Chesterton
  • “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernhard Shaw
  • “My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.” — George Bernhard Shaw
  • “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” — George Bernhard Shaw
  • “Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.” — George Bernhard Shaw
  • “Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.” — George Carlin
  • “It is better to be alone than in bad company.” — George Washington
  • “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” — Goethe
  • “Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.” — Goethe
  • “I have nothing but respect for you – and not much of it.” — Groucho Marx
  • “I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception.” — Groucho Marx
  • “Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.” — Groucho Marx
  • “Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, and I’m going to be happy in it.” — Groucho Marx
  • “Advertising is legalized lying.” — H.G. Wells
  • “If we don’t end war, war will end us.” — H.G. Wells
  • “Our true nationality is mankind.” — H.G. Wells
  • “Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.” — Henry Ford
  • “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” — Henry Ford
  • “The only real mistake is the one from where we learn nothing.” — Henry Ford
  • “Vision without execution is just hallucination.” — Henry Ford
  • “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t — you’re right.” — Henry Ford

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