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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Life and Living
Sholom Aleichem

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Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Maturity
Hervey Allen

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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
Tragedies
Aristotle

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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
Tragedies
Antonin Artaud

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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Nature
Hosea Ballou

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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
Tragedies
Jacques Barzun

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
Life and Living
Heywood Broun

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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
Divorce
Rita Mae Brown

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
Humor
Carol Burnett

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A lady of a certain age, which means certainly aged.
Age and Aging
Lord Byron

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All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.
Marriage
Lord Byron

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Life and Living
Thomas Carlyle

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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
Comedy and Comedians
Angela Carter

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Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Comedy and Comedians
Charlie Chaplin

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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Experience
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
Tragedies
E. M. Cioran

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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
Desire
Quentin Crisp

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To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.
Opponents
Cus D'Amato

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This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.
Arts and Artists
Salvador Dali

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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Doubt
Clarence Darrow

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Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed
Time and Time Management
Peter F. Drucker

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Failure
Thomas A. Edison

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
Life and Living
Benjamin Franklin

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One aged man -- one man -- can't fill a house.
Loneliness
Robert Frost

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The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
Men
Germaine Greer

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun