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The path of civilization is paved with tax receipts.
- Arnold Glasow
Watch your speech. A man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing, its the most important exciting form of communication man has ever evolved.
- Oren Arnold
Fame is a vapour, popularity an accident, riches take wings.
Only one thing endures - character.
- Horace Greely
Many people believe that admitting to a fault means that they no longer have to correct it.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
If youth only knew, & if age only could
- Henri Estienne
Motto of an advertising agency -
"If we were modest, we'd be perfect."
- Walter Carlson
I would gladly concede that women are our superiors, if only they would stop trying to be our equals.
- Sacha Guitry
Wonder is involuntary praise
- Edward Young
Epitaph of Martinus of Biberach, 1498 -
I live, I do not know how long
I die, I do not know when
I go, I don't know where
I am amazed that I can be so cheerful
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A cup is useful only when it is empty; & a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is a really uncreative mind.
- J. Krishnamurthi
A habit is a shirt made of iron.
- Czech Proverb
The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water, flowing hidden underground secretly making the ground greener.
- Thomas Carlyle
True friendship is like phosphorescence - it glows best when the world around you goes dark.
- D.M
The man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds.
- Mark Twain
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
- A.M
No man is an island as long as he is on even one mailing list.
- B.V
The average man has 30 kilos of muscle & 1.5 kilos of brains which explains a lot of things.
- L.A.T
To be objective about sex requires a mature & experienced viewpoint.
Unfortunately, by the time you achieve this, you generally don't give a damn.
- J.J
Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such nonsense.
- E.W
These things I do despise,
Hypocrisy and lies,
And anything that dims,
The light in children's eyes.
Three kinds of soul, three prayers;
I am a bow in your hands, Lord.
Draw me lest I rot.
Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break.
Overdraw me, Lord & who cares if I break.
It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed, than to repent of those we intend to commit.
- J.B
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
- Seneca
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
- F.C
What the heart knows today, the head will understand tomorrow.
- James Stephens
The first great rule is to put up with things; the second is to refuse to put up with things; & the third, and the hardest, is to be able to distinguish between the first two.
- Sydney J. Harris
Our bacteriology instructor, when asked if a kiss is unsanitary, came up with this poetic reply;
There is no rose
Without its cruel thorn
No pleasure glows
Without some grief to fill us
Words of bliss
May follow tones of scorn
And in every kiss
Lurks some damn bacillus
- H.B.S
It ain't bragging if you really done it.
- "Dizzy Dean"
Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
- Maya Angelon
I kissed my first woman & smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I have never had time fo tobacco since.
- Arturo Toscanini
If two people who love each other, let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows - it becomes a month, a year, a century. It becomes too late.
- Jean Giraudox
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy - & with death as his greatest source of anxiety.
- John Kenneth Jalbraith
I know of no surgical procedure that will replace macaroni in the spine with a rigid backbone. This is strictly a do-it-yourself project.
- Ann Landers
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites of more than he can chew.
- Herb Caen
In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.
- Jose Narosky
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it & to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
- Ann Landers
It needs more skill than I can tell
To play the second fiddle well.
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Ah, the insight of hindsight.
- Thurston N. Davis
God doesn't come when you want him, but he's right on time.
- Tenesse Williams
The trouble with illusions is that you don't realize that you have them until they are shattered.
- Preeti Sharma
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now.
- Joan Baez
Friendship is love without his wings.
- Lord Byron
Never hit a man when he is down. You may find he's bigger than you when he gets up.
- Joas Alberto Santos Silva
I'm not denying that women are foolish. God almighty made them to match the men.
- George Eliot
Its' always easy to tell your station in life. Sooner or later, someone tells you where to get off.
- Herb Daniels
With the technique it has, dynamite will never learn to sculpt.
- Sofocleto
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
- William Hazlitt
Perseverance is the hinge of all the virtues.
- Thomas Carlyle
Solitude is the beginning of love. Without distances there can be no love.
- Robert Sapriza
A ship in the harbour is safe. But that is not what ships are for.
- John Shedd
Many a person gets a reputation for being energetic when in truth he is merely fidgety.
- J. Mek
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, & ready money.
- Benjamin Franklin
An organized person is one who is too lazy to look for things.
- Jo Ann Thomas
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poet can reach where the sun cannot.
- Hindi Proverb
"I believe in you" is a statement that can save a life.
- Maria Paula Sonsa Couto
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B.P
Time is not measured by the clock, but by boredom.
- Sofocleto
Living in a fool's paradise is great fun until the rent comes due.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin
Show me the man you honour, and I will know what kind of man you are.
- Thomas Carlyle
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
- Friedrich Nietzehe
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
- Gamaliel Bradford
We are masters of our unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Arab Proverb
Do not believe those persons who say that they have never been jealous. What they mean is that they have never been in love.
- Gerald Brenan
There is one thing worse than being alone; wishing you were.
- Bob Steele
It is pain that ages us, not life.
- Jorge Calvetti
Advise is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
- Erica Mann
There is a fine line between courage and foolishness. Too bad it's not a fence.
- J.F
The whole thing about matrimony is this; we fall in love with a personality, but we must live with a character.
- Peter DeVries
Praise is like champagne; it should be served while it is still bubbling
The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her. The sky asks nothing & leaves it free.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Most people are flattered into virtue than are bullied out of vice.
- R.S.S
Necessity is the best advisor.
- Goethe
Sorrow looks behind, worry looks around, faith looks up.
Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart.
- Charles Dickens
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
- Ellen Parr
Tolerance is anger supressed by reason.
- Peter Ustinov
Compromise is simply changing the question to fit the answer.
- Merrit Molloy
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
- Danish Proverb
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
- W.A.W
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
- Joseph Roux
There is a vast difference in putting your nose in other people's business & putting your heart in other people's problems.
If your efforts are greated with indifference, do not lose heart; the sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most people in the audience go on sleeping.
- E.F.T
A true friend is not the one who wipes away our tears; he is the one who keeps us from shedding them.
- E.F.T
Two things a man cannot hide; that he is drunk & that he is in love.
- Antiphanes
If life were a bed of roses, some people wouldn't be happy until they developed an allergy.
The mask given time, comes to be the face itself.
- M. Yourcenar
He who talks a lot, thinks little.
Don't explode it - Good planets are hard to find.
The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes.
- Jewish Proverb
What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.
- Goethe
Never be haughty to the humble.
Never be humble to the haughty.
- Jefferson Davies
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. Its called marriage.
- J. H. Mc Gavran
If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.
- Dr. A. V. Mason
Nothing ever causes a young man greater surprise than to find that someone has fallen in love with his sister.
Fate bows to him who defies it.
- Rama Tirtha
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their igenuity.
- General George S. Patton
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