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“The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
"Helping the Girls with their Income Taxes" <!-- p. 72 -->
The Illiterate Digest (1924)
Context: The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make one out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a Crook or a Martyr.
Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variant: If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
“Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?"
- Elizabeth Bennet”
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
“All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.”
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore I must destroy you”
Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
“It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.”
Herbert M. Shelton (1895–1985) American medical writer
Source: Getting Well https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0787307785 (Health Research Books, 1993), p. 137.
“I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Jennifer Crusie (1949) American writer
Source: Faking It
Adeline Yen Mah (1937) Author and physician
Source: Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.”
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
“Better that we leave the paint behind," Hans told her, "than ever forget the music.”
Markus Zusak book The Book Thief
Source: The Book Thief
“Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.”
Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker
“Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.”
Charlie Kaufman (1958) American screenwriter
“Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are”
Mark Nepo (1951) American writer
Source: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have