The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
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Margot Fonteyn
Man unlike the animal has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
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Samuel Butler
Life's better when it's fun. Boy that's deep isn't it?
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Kevin Costner
When a man is gloomy everything seems to go wrong when he is cheerful everything seems right!
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Bible
More Quotes By Clive James
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.
If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.
Democracy is even more important for what it prevents than for what it provides.
The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.
