| Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. -
Abraham Lincoln
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| Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for... -
Thornton Wilder
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| Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. -
Felix Frankfurter
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| Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold. -
Alain de Lille
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| That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself. -
Tom Gates
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| When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. -
Henny Youngman
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| Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. -
Don Schula
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| Idealism increases in direct proportion to one`s distance from the problem. -
John Galsworthy
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| The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. -
Donald Kendall
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| The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. -
Henry Havelock Ellis
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| The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all. -
Alan Simpson
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| Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent`s pressure, and the temporary failures. -
Vince Lombardi
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| People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. -
A. J. Liebling
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| Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. -
George Bernard Shaw
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| The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. -
Margaret Fuller
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| In democracy its your vote that counts. In feudalism its your count that votes. -
Mogens Jallberg
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| You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. -
James Lane Allen
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| I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. -
James Arthur Baldwin
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| Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love. -
Marc Chagall
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| The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on -
Peter McWilliams
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| May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us -
Wystan Hugh Auden
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| I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960 -
John Lennon
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| In necessary things, unity in doubtful things, liberty in all things, charity. -
Richard Baxter
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| All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. -
George Santayana
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| I pay no attention whatever to anybody`s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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| Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. -
Mark Twain
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| I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy -
Louise Bogan
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| Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity. -
Cato the Elder
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| The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul. -
Smiley Blanton
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| When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he`d like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish. -
Dwight D Eisenhower
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| We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us. -
La Rochefoucauld
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| Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. -
James Anthony Froude
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| It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant. -
Seneca
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| A great marriage is not when the `perfect couple` comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. -
Dave Meurer
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| Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling true happiness involves the full use of one`s powers and talents. -
John W. Gardner
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| People only see what they are prepared to see. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment. -
Thomas Jefferson
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| A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -
Mark Twain
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| Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. -
Thomas Jefferson
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| The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. -
Henry David Thoreau
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| I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the most foolish act a wise man commits in all his life. -
Sir Thomas Browne
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| Some people don`t get it when I`m being sarcastic. -
Leonardo DiCaprio
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| The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. -
Frank Lloyd Wright
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| Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. -
Leonardo DaVinci
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| A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. -
Herbert V. Prochnow
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| Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. -
Scott Adams
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| Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. -
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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| Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings And children`s faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup. -
Sara Teasdale
|
| Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. -
Abraham Lincoln
|
| Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
|
| I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for... -
Thornton Wilder
|
| Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. -
Felix Frankfurter
|
| Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold. -
Alain de Lille
|
| That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself. -
Tom Gates
|
| When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. -
Henny Youngman
|
| Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. -
Don Schula
|
| Idealism increases in direct proportion to one`s distance from the problem. -
John Galsworthy
|
| The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. -
Donald Kendall
|
| The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. -
Henry Havelock Ellis
|
| The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all. -
Alan Simpson
|
| Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent`s pressure, and the temporary failures. -
Vince Lombardi
|
| People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. -
A. J. Liebling
|
| Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. -
George Bernard Shaw
|
| The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. -
Margaret Fuller
|
| In democracy its your vote that counts. In feudalism its your count that votes. -
Mogens Jallberg
|
| You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. -
James Lane Allen
|
| I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. -
James Arthur Baldwin
|
| Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love. -
Marc Chagall
|
| The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
|
| Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on -
Peter McWilliams
|
| May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us -
Wystan Hugh Auden
|
| I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960 -
John Lennon
|
| In necessary things, unity in doubtful things, liberty in all things, charity. -
Richard Baxter
|
| All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. -
George Santayana
|
| I pay no attention whatever to anybody`s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
|
| Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. -
Mark Twain
|
| I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy -
Louise Bogan
|
| Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity. -
Cato the Elder
|
| The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul. -
Smiley Blanton
|
| When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he`d like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish. -
Dwight D Eisenhower
|
| We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us. -
La Rochefoucauld
|
| Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. -
James Anthony Froude
|
| It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant. -
Seneca
|
| A great marriage is not when the `perfect couple` comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. -
Dave Meurer
|
| Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling true happiness involves the full use of one`s powers and talents. -
John W. Gardner
|
| People only see what they are prepared to see. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
|
| Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment. -
Thomas Jefferson
|
| A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -
Mark Twain
|
| Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. -
Thomas Jefferson
|
| The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. -
Henry David Thoreau
|
| I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the most foolish act a wise man commits in all his life. -
Sir Thomas Browne
|
| Some people don`t get it when I`m being sarcastic. -
Leonardo DiCaprio
|
| The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. -
Frank Lloyd Wright
|
| Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. -
Leonardo DaVinci
|
| A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. -
Herbert V. Prochnow
|
| Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. -
Scott Adams
|
| Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. -
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
|
| Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings And children`s faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup. -
Sara Teasdale
|