From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."
- Groucho Marx -
"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."
- Samuel Butler -
"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me ... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
- Walt Disney -
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
- Heraclitus -
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
- Charles Kingsley -
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do ... Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain -
"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can weep down the mightiest walls of oppression and injustice."
- Robert F. Kennedy -
"If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like Beethoven composed music; sweep streets so well that all the host of Heaven and Earth will have to pause and say, Here lived a great sweeper, who swept his job well."
- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer."
Leo Buscaglia
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Alistair Cooke
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.
La Rochefoucauld
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Pearl Bailey
Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
Horace J. Brown
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
The shortest recorded period of time leas between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
Jane Bryant Quinn
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
Ethel Watts Mumford
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Dough Larson
If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
Jean de la fontaine
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear thim crow.
George Eliot
Every horse thinks his pack heavy.
German saying
Wise men don't need advice. Fool wont't take it.
Benjamin Franklin
There is a crack in everything, it's
where the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen, Anthem
It is better to light one little candle, than to curse the darkness.
Anonymous
It's better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and resolve all doubts.
By President Abraham Lincoln.
All the great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
Charles H. Parkhurst
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is not permanent.The same is also true of failure.
Quoted in Dell Crossword Puzzles
Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
Countess of Blessington
When a man eats his words, that's recycling.
Frank A.Clark, Register and Tribune Syndicate
America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough bilsters in the same place, they will eveentually produce a cellus. That is what we call maturity.
Herbert Miller
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
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