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When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.
- African Proverb
Loneliness and the feeling of being uncared for & unwanted are the greatest poverty.
- Mother Teresa
You never get over being a child as long as you have a mother to go to.
- Sarah
Orne Jewett
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip & worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
- Charlie Brower
The hardest heads break the soonest.
- Sophocles
True illiteracy is the lack of curiosity & curiosity is the essence of culture.
- Goffredo Parise
The rising tide lifts all the boats.
- John Kennedy
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Plato
Knowledge is the child of experience.
- Leonardo da Vinci
In our life there is a single colour, as on an artiste's palette, which provides the meaning of life & art. It is the colour of love.
- Marc Chagall
Enough is abundance to the wise.
- Euripides
It takes very little to fill up a big heart.
- Antonio Porchia
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
- Marian Anderson
Love at first sight is easy to understand. It's when two people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes a miracle.
- Sam Levenson
One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
- Margaret Mead
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting for centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
- J.A.H
In my friend, I find a second self.
- I. Norton
Cosmic upheavel is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.
- Thomas Savage
A real person is one who can grow up and still remain a child.
- Erich Kastner
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
- Rev. Theodore Hesburgh
Don't laugh at youth for his affections; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.
- Logan Smith
When a resolute man steps up to that great bully, the world & takes him boldy by the beard; he is often surprised to find that the beard comes off in his hand, that it was only tied on to frighten away timid adventurers.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Humour is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
- L. Hughes
May you have the greatest two gifts of all on these holidays; someone to love and someone who loves you.
- John Sinor
Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.
- Barry Farber
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
- John Nuveen
What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.
- George Eliot
Nothing in a man is more serious than his sense of humour; it is a sign that he wants all the truth.
- Mark von Doren
When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.
- Helen Gahagan Douglas
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who recieves it, it's chiselled in bronze.
- Giovanni Guareochi
Story writers say that love is concerned only with young people, and the excitement and glamour of romance end at the altar. How blind they are. The best romance is inside a marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
- Irving Stone
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.
- Anwar el Sadat
In spite of the cost of living it's still popular.
- Kathleen Norris
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
The mirror tells only the facts, never the poetry.
- May Sarton
All the glories of this world are not worth a good friend.
- Voltaire
It is a great misery not to have enough wit to speak well, nor enough judgement to keep quiet.
- La Bruyere
Life's dusk brings its lamp with it.
- Joseph Joubert
Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.
- Leo Buscaglia
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
- Groucho Marx
When temptation knocks, imagination ususally answers.
- Dan Bennett
It is respectable to have no illusions - and safe - and profitable - and dull.
- Joseph Conrad
Waiting is worse than knowing. Grief rends the heart cleanly, that it may begin to heal; waiting shreds the spirit.
- M. Llywelyn
Accept me as I am - only then will we discover each other.
- From Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 cineriz
Men build bridges and throw railways across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them.
- Heywood Brown
Things will probably come out all right, but sometimes it takes strong nerves just to watch.
- H. Donovan
No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year old girl laughing with a puppy.
- Bern Williams
Every bigot was once a child free of prejudice.
- Sister Mary de Lourdes
Seredipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering the farmer's daughter.
- Julius Comore
Your worth is not measured by what you've got; it is measured by what you give.
- Mauro Mota
Failure is an event, not a person.
- W. Brown
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
- Helen Hayes
The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.
- Zero Mostel
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
- Plato
Friends are relatives you make for yourself.
- Eustace Deschamps
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless that know love's tragedies.
- Unknown
Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Gandhi
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.
- Robert Frost
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