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" Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. "

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" All generalizations are false, including this one. "

Generalizations

" Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. "

" The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. "

" Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. "

" If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat. "

" The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. "

" Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. "

" There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. "

" Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired. "

" The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. "

" What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. "

" All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. "

" Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold. "

" Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. "

" A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. "

" Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. "

" There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. "

" India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire. "

" It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. "

" Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. "

" Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. "

" Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. "

" There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. "

" Better a broken promise than none at all. "

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

" Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. "

" I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. "

" Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. "

" Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. "

" Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. "