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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
HONORE DE BALZAC

Experience is always experience of oneself; it cannot, therefore, make others wise.
JOHN SPALDING

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.
HOLBROOK JACKSON

A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.
AMBROSE BIERCE

Style is when you lean against a lamp-post and it looks as though you are doing it a favour.
JOHN HEGEDUS

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
MARTIN LUTHER

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

The best way to preserve life is to freeze it and dry it.
WALTER KEMMERER Jr

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
SAKI (H. H. MUNRO)

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason - birth, marriage, and death.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
EURIPIDES

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.
GERMAN PROVERB

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage.
JOHN HOLMES

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
FRANCIS BACON

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
BERTIE FORBES

Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Doubt is the key of knowledge.
PERSIAN PROVERB

A theory must be tempered with reality.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

There are fools who judge men by their outside.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Not he who has much is rich. but he who gives much.
ERICH FROMM

The house was more covered with mortgages than with paint.
GEORGE ADE Nothing can be so deceiving as a photograph.
FRANZ KAFKA

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
GEORGE ELIOT

Men learn while they teach.
SENECA

You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKE The most precious things in speech are pauses.
RALPH RICHARDSON

Don't make excuses - make good.
FRANK HUBBARD

Wisdom is a treasure for all time.
JAPANESE PROVERB

There's one thing about baldness: it's neat.
DON HEROLD

One should eat to live, not live to eat.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Discretion in speech, is more than eloquence.
FRANCIS BACON

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
ANONYMOUS

Never give advice in a crowd.
ARABIAN PROVERB

Language is the dress of thought.
SAMUEL JOHNSON

Children are poor men's riches.
PROVERB

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
CHARLES ALFRED MERCIER

Memories are all we really own.
ELIAS LIEVERMAN

Rich men die but banks are immortal.
WENDELL PHILLIPS

What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.
WILLIAM BOLITHO

Interruptions are the spice of life.
DON HEROLD

Ugly facts are a challenge to beautify them.
HENRY S. HASKINS

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
PROVERB

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Fish and guests smell in three days.
PROVERB

The British tourist is always happy abroad so long as the natives are waiters.
ROBERT MORLEY

Be sparing of speech, and things will come right of themselves.
LAO-TSE

To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.
FRITZ KUNKEL

Depth of friendship does not depend upon length of acquaintance.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE

With the mingling of races there is increasing life and vigor.
LEONE LEVI

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
E.W. HOWE

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
SPANISH PROVERB

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
ORLANDO BATTISTA

True generosity gives recognition.
GOETHE

It takes self-respect to know how to remain silent.
COCO CHANEL

There is a crack in everything God has made.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

He that forgives gains the victory.
AFRICAN PROVERB

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
SYRUS

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
CHARLES F. KETTERING

If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
WILSON MIZNER

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
BERNARD M. BARUCH

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
J. G. POLLARD

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today!
WILL ROGERS

Be true to yourself. Then at least one person will not be false to you.
COCO CHANEL

If there is anything better than to be loved, it is loving.
ANONYMOUS

A room without books is a body without a soul.
PROVERB

A man shows his character by what he laughs at.
PROVERB

I derived my education from the uneducated.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.
KIN HUBBARD

Ireland is a country in which the probable never happens and the impossible always does.
JOHN PENTLAND MAHAFFY

Within I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if he knew the facts of the case.
FINLEY DUNNE

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.
EDMUND BURKE

We learn to do by doing.
JOHN DEWEY

He is poor whose expenses exceed his income.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE

The deepest truths are the simplest and the most common.
FREDERICK ROBERTSON

Being in the right does not depend on having a loud voice.
CHINESE PROVERB

The bowels of compassion: a wonderful old phrase. They ought to be kept open.
NORMAN DOUGLAS

Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.
PINDAR

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
ALLAN K. CHALMERS

Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art....It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. LEWIS

Take enough time to think and plan things in the order of their importance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

 
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