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George Saintsbury


Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.

Randolph Silliman Bourne


Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

Charles Caleb Colton


Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.

Seneca, Letters to Lucilius V


Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse.

George Dennison Prentice


Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.

Isaac Asimov


No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . .

John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961


And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country.

Proverbs 1417a Bible


He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly...

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Bertrand Russell


The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

John Milton


... If weakness may excuse, What Murderer, what Traitor, Parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it All Wickedness is Weakness That plea therefore With God or Man will gain thee no Remission.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

Gloria Pitzer


About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

John Locke


Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

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Josephine Preston Peabody


One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.

Marion Howard


Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

Pearl Buck, quoted in O Magazine, May 2003


Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.

Mitchell Caplan, CEO, E*Trade Group Inc.


To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Marcus Valerius Martialis


Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.

Josh Billings


There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

James Grover Thurber


All men should strive to learn before they die What they are running from, and to, and why.

Henry David Thoreau


Water is the only drink for a wise man.

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Mary Beth Danielson


If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.

Mark Twain


The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

Confucius


Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Madame de Stael


The more I see of men, the better I like dogs.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce


Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

George Bernard Shaw


A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

James Arthur Baldwin


People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

Friedrich Nietzsche


How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!

Thomas Fuller


Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

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Virgil


Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

W. G. Morrice


Christians rejoice because God is their heavenly Father who forgives the penitent, because God sent his Son into the world for the salvation of all who have faith, because Jesus Christ not only died but was raised again from the dead and because joy is one of the ninefold fruits of the Spirit.

Kahlil Gibran


Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Hardy D. Jackson


Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

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Dwight D Eisenhower


Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Amanda Cross


The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"


Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

Marquis de Sade


Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

Roosevelt, Eleanor


Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.

Brother Theodore


It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.

Adam Richardson


All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.

Chuang-tzu


The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.


Nothing is so frequent as to mistake an ordinary human gift for a special and extraordinary endowment.

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