Simon Munnery Quotes

#1. Honesty is not always the best
policy when it hurts the
person you care about the
most and pushes them away.

Alison G. Bailey

#2. I remember when I posed as a customs officer so that I could meet Oscar Wilde. I said to him "Have you anything to declare?" He said "I have nothing to declare but my genius." I said "I'll put that down as nothing then shall I?" For I am the wittiest man on Earth.

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#3. Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.

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#4. I wear glasses myself. As an affectation, as a badge of high intellect and to see with.

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#5. Life is like a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Very popular and not as bad as some would have you believe. That is, unspeakably awful but mercifully brief.

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#6. Fish deserve to be caught for they are lazy. Two million years of evolution and they still haven't got out of the water.

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#7. this boat is and is not
when it sinks both disappear

Ikkyu

#8. Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.

Mignon McLaughlin

#9. Like many supermodels, I won't get out of bed for less than £3000. Unlike many supermodels, I don't get out of bed very often.

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#10. The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things.

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#11. If there is no case to take care of, then you will take care to create a case to take care of. Otherwise your system becomes useless.

Oliver Kemper

#12. He who disagrees with me in private, call him a fool. He who disagrees with me in public, call him an ambulance.

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#13. Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.

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#14. All men are brothers. Hence war.

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#15. Do you realize what we accomplished today? Today the spaceship was born.

Walter Dornberger

#16. The whole concept of negotiating is intimidating to many people.

Leigh Steinberg

#17. What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what?

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#18. In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.

Bela Karolyi

#19. I don't worry about losing my looks. It's finding them on someone else that worries me.

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#20. I've got nothing against any individual American, except that there aren't any. They're always Irish-American, African-American ... There's never an American-American you can blame.

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#21. I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

Ayelet Waldman

#22. James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend.

Stephen Rodrick

#23. It is the vanity of women to spend hours in front of the mirror. It is the vanity of men not to bother.

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#24. My parents taught me to react quickly when temptation comes and to say 'No!' instantly and emphatically. I recommend that same counsel to you. Avoid temptations.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#25. When you look in the mirror and despair and none of your clothes seem appropriate, relax, put the kettle on. It might suit you.

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#26. I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up.

Esi Edugyan

#27. If you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep
your mouth shut

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#28. Like bees around honey. Why are bees so attracted to honey, since they make it? It can only be vanity.

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