Top 300 Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “My social life is much better, since I stopped spending it with other people.”

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202. “My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.”

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203. “I can no longer face life, so I’ve decided to go through the rest of it backwards.”

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204. “The most exciting place to discover talent is in yourself.”

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205. “It’s good to have some certainty in life, even if it’s only that I’m in deep trouble.”

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206. “Some people can find all the peace of mind they need in a good, satisfying conflict.”

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207. “Why is my autograph so little in demand, except on checks?”

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208. “Do you believe in apathy at first sight?”

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209. “I too have known joy and sadness, and, on the whole, I prefer joy.”

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210. “Not everything I dislike should be destroyed, some of it should simply be moved farther away.”

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211. “Things are sometimes better left as they are, but you can’t be sure until you change them.”

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212. “Aren’t I lucky, to have survived so much bad luck.”

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213. “Life is a process of losing our illusions, until we finally lose the illusion that we’re alive.”

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214. “Words are a wonderful form of communication, but they will never replace kisses and punches.”

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215. “Most of my problems have no answer or else the answer is worse than the problem.”

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216. “It’s hard to face tomorrow, but it’s easier than facing no tomorrow.”

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217. “If you don’t like my opinion of you, you can always improve.”

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218. “You have a right to enjoy life, but only on your own time.”

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219. “What good is it if you talk in flowers, and they think in pastry?”

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220. “If only our great thinkers could learn to talk, and our great talkers could learn to think.”

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221. “I have nothing definite to apologize for; I’m just sorry about everything in general.”

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222. “As long as I have you there is just one other thing I’ll always need – tremendous self control.”

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223. “Time will end all my troubles, but I don’t always approve of Time’s methods.”

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224. “Watch out! It’s quite possible that some of my best mistakes haven’t yet been made.”

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225. “Caution! Be very careful of false, meaningless, self-contradictory, and not even very funny warnings, like this one.”

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226. “The surest way to learn is by doing it, but often, the lesson is: Don’t do it!”

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227. “I’m not always depressed: only when I think and feel.”

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228. “Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known, for others it depends on never being found out.”

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229. “Scientists say we use 10% of our brain. That’s way too much. By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.”

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230. “The future seems to be in good hands, it’s the past I’m worried about.”

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231. “At great expense, we have built a vast system of inter-connecting stupidities.”

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232. “If we could all hear one another’s prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.”

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233. “The majority is never right, unless it includes me.”

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234. “The case has been going on for so long that I’ve forgotten whether I’m really innocent or guilty.”

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235. “If you have something to say and say nothing, you are really telling a lie.”

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236. “With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world’s first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations.”

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237. “The longer I live, the less future there is to worry about.”

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238. “My research consists of studying the effects of putting somebody like me into a world like this.”

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239. “Love is a strange commodity, because you can’t import it if you don’t also export it.”

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240. “Never underestimate the size and scope of my problems.”

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241. “There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.”

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242. “How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?”

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243. “When you plan a journey from your mind into mine, remember to allow for the time difference.”

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244. “If coffee didn’t exist, somebody would have to invent it for me very soon.”

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245. “Don’t call it freedom, unless it includes the freedom to be absolutely disgusting.”

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246. “I could do without many things with no hardship-you are not one of them.”

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247. “Do what you know is right, but try not to get caught.”

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248. “My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.”

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249. “Life can be very deep, but I’m trying to stay at the shallow end.”

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250. “The trouble is that sex is a force of nature, and reason is not.”

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