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"When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. "I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." "The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do." "Love is not about who you live with. It's about who you can't live without." "A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." "Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell." "Good supervision is the art of getting average people to do superior work." "Wit is educated insolence." "Education is the best provision for the journey to old age." "One swallow does not make the spring." "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." "We are what we repeatedly do." "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit." "There is safety in numbers."
Aesop Gracie Allen Woody Allen Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Anonymous Aristotle Aristotle Aristotle Aristotle Aristotle Aristotle Anonymous
Orlando A. Battista
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte
C "Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."
"There are people who have money and people who are rich." "Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." "A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition." "The price of greatness is responsibility." "We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
Miguel de Cervante Coco Chanel G. K. Chesterton G. K. Chesterton Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Winston Churchill
"If you are going through hell, keep going." "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. "Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors." "I believe in luck; how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?" "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." "Respect yourself and others will respect you." "Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood."
Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Winston Churchill Cicero E.M. Cioran Jean Cocteau Conficius Conficius Marie Curie Salvador Dali Salvador Dali Charles Darwin Marlene Dietrich Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli Benjamin Disraeli Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas Thomas Edison Albert Einstein Albert Einstein Albert Einstein Albert Einstein Albert Einstein Albert Einstein Albert Einstein Albert Einstein Albert Einstein Albert Einstein Euripides Euripides
D "The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
"Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it." "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." "Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours." "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to him his own." "Little things affect little minds." "The secret of success is constancy of purpose." "Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. "All for one and one for all."
F "A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth, and that is why we call what he writes fiction."
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." "The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy." "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan but also believe." "Most fools think they are only ignorant." "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." "Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." "Men are more moral than they think, and far more immoral than they can imagine."
William Faulkner Henry Ford Henry Ford Malcolm Forbes Anatole France Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Anna Freud Sigmund Freud Galileo Galilei Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi Mahatma Gandhi Charles de Gaulle Charles de Gaulle J. Paul Getty J. Paul Getty J. Paul Getty William Gladstone Johann Wolfgang Johann Wolfgang Johann Wolfgang Johann Wolfgang
G "We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."
"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers." "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." "Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever. "Nothing strengthens authority as much as silence" "Graveyards are full of indispensable men." "Formula for success : rise early, work hard, strike oil." "Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children." "If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man." "All the world over I will back the masses against the classes." "Enjoy when you can and endure when you must." "Whatever you can do or dream, begin it." " A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days." "Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life."
Ernest Hemmingway Alfred Hitchcock Victor Hugo Victor Hugo Victor Hugo Aldous Huxley Thomas Jefferson Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson
J In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
"Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks." "When making your choices in life, do not forget to live." "Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
Immanuel Kant John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy
John Maynard Keyn Martin Luther King Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling Henry Kissinger Henry Kissinger Dalai Lama John Lennon Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln
L "We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."
"Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans." "In the end it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years." "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." "You can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." "No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution." "People ask for criticism, but they only want praise." "It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late." "To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship."
Niccolo Machiavelli
W. Somerset Maugh
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
P "In the field of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind."
"The chief enemy of creativity is good taste." "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." "You don't stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing." "The voyage to discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
Louis Pasteur Pablo Picasso Plutarch Alexander Pope Michael Pritchard Marcel Proust Francois Rabelais F.W. Robertson
R "If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must break your mirror."
"A statesman is a successful politician who is dead." "Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life." "Many people despise wealth but few know how to give it away." "Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice." "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." "The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything." "If it can't be cured, it must be endured." "When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." "Hell is other people." "It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create." "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." "Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts." "Action is eloquence." "All that glitters is not gold." "Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners." "Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language." "The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty." "Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children!" "Martyrdom ... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability." "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." "Reasonable men adapt to the world. Unreasonable men adapt the world to themselves. That's why all progress depends on unreasonable men." "Can a man who is warm understand one who is freezing?" "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you plant!" "Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
Thomas Brackett R
F. de la Rochefouca
F. de la Rochefouca
Theodore Roosevelt
Antoine de Saint Ex
William Shakespear
William Shakespear
William Shakespear
George Bernard Sh
George Bernard Sh
George Bernard Sh
George Bernard Sh
George Bernard Sh
Alexander Solzheni
"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible." "May you live every day of your life." "I am more afraid of an army of a hundred sheep led by a lion, than an army of a hundred lions led by a sheep." "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." "A good laugh is sunshine in a house." "Love is real only when a person can sacrifice himself for another." "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." "Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."
Talleyrand
Alfred Lord Tennys William Thackery Leo Tolstoy Mark Twain Mark Twain Mark Twain Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
"Wisdom is knowing how little we know." "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all." "The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything." "No man is rich enough to buy back his past." "There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." "True friends stab you in the front." "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." "All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness."
Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde
Tennessee Williams
Y "Education is not the filling of a pail, but rather the lighting of a fire." Z "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."