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Published Wednesday, August 31, 2016 @ 7:22 AM EDT
Aug 31 2016

Everybody believes in democracy until he reaches the White House.
-Thomas Cronin

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.
-Christopher Hitchens

Everybody doesn't have to get every joke. People really appreciate not being condescended to.
-Matt Groening

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
-Marshall McLuhan

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
-Gertrude Stein

Everybody had a plan until I hit them in the face.
-Mike Tyson

Everybody has a chapter they don't read out loud.
-Variously attributed

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
-Bette Davis

Everybody has a use. You just have to find out how to use them, find out what they're good for, and put them in the right slot.
-Santo Trafficante, Jr.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?
-William Saroyan

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.
-George Lucas

Everybody has to have a hometown... For whatever else I may have had, or lost, or will find- I've still got a hometown. This, nobody's gonna take away from me.
-Rod Serling

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.
-Donald Miller

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
-Desiderius Erasmus

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
-Peter De Vries

Everybody I admire died with no money.
-Kinky Friedman

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same- hardihood. Give them raw truth.
-John Jay Chapman

Everybody in the world ought to be sorry for everybody else. We all have our little private hell.
-Bettina von Hutten

Everybody is as unstable as water.
-Joseph Heller

Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.
-Ernest Hemingway

Everybody is in favor of justice so long as it costs them no effort.
-W.E.B. DuBois

Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
-V.S. Naipaul

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
-Thomas Hardy

Everybody keeps calling for Excellence- excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent, the other shout goes up: 'Elitism!' And whatever produced that thing, whoever praises that result, is promptly put down. 'Standing out' is undemocratic.
-Jacques Barzun

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
-P.J. O'Rourke

Everybody lies about sex.
-Robert A. Heinlein

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
-Nick Diamos

Everybody makes fun of virtue, which by now has, as its primary meaning, an affectation of prudery practiced by hypocrites and the impotent.
-Thomas Merton

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.
-David Mamet

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
-Saul Bellow

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades.
-Dalton Trumbo

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
-Irving Berlin

Everybody says not enough people vote. Now, I don't know nothing, but after the midterms, pretty obvious to me, that too many people vote.
-Will Durst

Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.
-Henry Miller

Everybody should have an equal chance- but they shouldn't have a flying start.
-Harold Wilson

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.
-Rob Reiner

Everybody that I've ever seen that enjoyed their job was very good at it.
-Chuck Yeager

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
-Gertrude Stein

Everybody wants to be known. Everybody's a Kardashian.
-Mike Nichols

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
-Pearl Bailey

Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.
-P.J. O'Rourke

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.
-Ben Bradlee

Everybody's business is nobody's business.
-Thomas Babington Macaulay

Everybody's friend is nobody's.
-Arthur Schopenhauer

Everybody's Hell is different; its not all fire and pain. The real Hell is your life gone wrong.
-Richard Matheson

Everybody's just lovin' everybody else just too much for my money.
-Elaine Stritch

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.
-Harvey Pekar

Everybody's shaking in his boots, so don't be bluffed.
-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Everybody's talkin' 'bout the new sound
Funny, but it's still rock and roll to me.
-Billy Joel

Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.
-Maureen Dowd

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

Everybody- by which I mean not you- is getting rich off the Internet.
-Dave Barry


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