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The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him, than he is in a woman - any woman with beautiful legs.
- Marlene Dietrich
Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing.
- Clive James
A girl is grown up the moment she no longer tries to appear older than she is.
- Marcello Mastroianni
Beauty seen is never lost.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
We can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the pavement and clap as they go by.
- Will Rogers
All people smile in the same language.
- Morris Mandel
Loss of enthusiasm is a form of premature death. It is like accepting defeat without having been defeated.
- Roberto Sapriza
What's done to children, they will do to society.
- Dr. Karl Menninger
No one is ever old enough to know better.
- Holbrrok Jackson
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
- Thomas Jefferson
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind.
- John Neal
Don't find fault. Find a remedy.
- Henry Ford
Never bow to authority, but always tip your hat.
- Jim Fiebig
It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.
- Oscar Wilde
People who fight fire with fire ususally end up with ashes.
- Abigail Van Buren
Too much agreement kills a chat.
- Eldridge Cleaver
When a woman says, "Ah, I could love you if ......" - fear not. She already loves you.
- W. Pulitzer
My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as it is with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
- Robert Southey
By the time a person get to greener pastures, he can't climb the fence.
- F.D
Sometimes, the best way to convince someone that he is wrong, is to let him have his way.
- R.O'D
There are two insults no human being will endure; that he has no sense of humour, & that he has never known trouble.
- Sinclair Lewis
In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.
- gen. Omar N. Bradley
We love because it is the only true adventure.
- Abigail Van Buren
An optimist sees the rose; a pessimist the thorn.
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If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it.
- Chinese Proverb
A man who studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
- Francis Bacon
You can't turn back the clock, but you can wind it up again.
- Bonnie Pruden
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice-cream fall from the cone.
- Jim Fiebig
Might does not make right; it only makes history.
- Jim Fiebig
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
- Rev. Jesse Jackson
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
- Austin Phelps
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
- Hellen Keller
Once the game is over the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
- Italian Proverb
It is unwise to do unto others as you would that they do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
- G. B. Shaw
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived & so finely felt as injustice.
- Charles Dickens
There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue without taking sides; they are called humourists.
- C. H
Though one man can conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, he who conquers himself is the greatest warrior.
- Buddha
If life were just, we would be born old, and achieve youth about the time we'd have saved enough to enjoy it.
- Fiebig
Poetry is like a perfume which on evaporation leaves in our soul the essence of beauty.
- Jean Paul Richter
Seven techniques by which to improve human relations.
* The six most important words: "I admit I made a mistake".
* The five most important words: "You did a good job".
* The four most important words: "What is your opinion".
* The three most important words: "If you please".
* The two most important words: "Thank you".
* The one most important word: "We"
* The least important word: "I"
- David Weiss
A sense of humour doesn't make us happier, but compensates for the fact that we are not.
- S. G. B
Succes without honour is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
- Joe Paterno
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
- Reinhold Niebuher
Stop justifying selfishness because "The world is a jungle". It can also be a garden, depending upon whether one wants to plant and water or to plunder and uproot.
- Sydney J. Harris
This is the true measure of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
- Goethe
Tenderness is passion in repose.
- Joseph Janbert
Inside every man there is a poet who died young.
- S. K
One of the best ways to measure people is to watch the way they behave whne something free is offered.
- Ann Landers
There is an old rabbinic saying, "You don't have to finish the job, but you are not allowed to stop trying".
- S. W. B
Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength.
- Eric Hoffer
Who gossips to you will gossip of you.
- Turkish Proverb
Ours is an exceptionally conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
- D. H. Lawrence
To have a place in someone's heart is to be never alone.
- Alejandro Perez
Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow.
- T. B
By the time you find out what makes the world go around, you are too dizzy to care.
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Life is for one generation; a good name for ever.
- Japanese Proverb
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calender, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calender.
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It's more fun to arrive at a conclusion than to justify it.
- Malcom Forbes
The perfect journey is circular - The joy of departure and the joy of return.
- Dino Basili
While children are still young, give them deep roots; when they grow older give them wings.
- Indian Proverb
The moralist is depressed by the difference between the way men are and the way they ought to be; the humourist is delighted by the difference between the way men are and the way they pretend to be.
- R. J. Needham
Nothing more helps a friendship - or even an intimacy - to be born & strengthened than laughter and tears; those who laughed together & especially those who once cried together can easily become friends.
- Manuel Antonio de Almeida
The greatest hero is who makes his enemy his friend.
- The Talmud
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a trusted element in another person's life.
- Joyce Brothers
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
- C. D. Jackson
A happy memory is worth a whole lifetime.
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Satire is humour that has lost its patience.
- Giovanni Mosca
The average person can easily see both sides of a question if his wallet or prejudices aren't involved.
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The story of love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
- Helen Hayes
The lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness.
- Erich Froum
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells
One does not make friends. One recognizes them.
- Garth Henricks
When someone demands blind obedience, you'd be a fool not to peek.
- Jim Fiebig
You are what you are when nobody's looking.
- Ann Landers
The fragrance always stays in the hand the gives the rose.
- Hada Bejar
There are moments when politeness or tact require that certain things remain unsaid. We do not owe the truth to everyone.
- Mario Soldati
The greatest artist was once a beginner.
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Our fathers teachus what we must become; our mothers teach us what we are.
- Peter Davison
Could we see when and where we were to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends good-bye.
- Ouida
A few people get up bright and early; most of us just get up early.
- Phil Pastoret
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
- Henry van Dyke
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
Every conviction was a whim at birth.
- Heywood Brown
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Talk not of wasted affection. Affection was never wasted.
- H. G. Longfellow
Beware the fury of a petient man.
- John Dryden
When luck enters, give him a seat!
- Jewish Proverb
Most truths are so naked that most people feel sorry for them and cover them up at least a ilttle bit.
- H. W
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.
- Evelyn Waugh
If the stars should appear just one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore!
- R. W. Emerson
The penalty for censoring what your children may be taught, is children who are no brighter than you.
- R. Clark
Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime should rank among the fine arts.
- Roberta Flack
If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little more.
- Jules Renard
It is difficult to win a friend in a year; it is easy to lose one in an hour.
- Chinese Proverb
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
- J. Kozol
There is no such thing as an old woman. Any woman, at any age, if she loves, if she is good, gives man the moment of infinity.
- Michelet
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
- Eva Gabor
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites of more than he can chew.
- Herb Caen
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