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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
- Christine Bovee
- That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), 'But the One on the Right,' in New Yorker, 1929
- Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
- The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- The crowd gives the leader new strength.
- Evenius
- The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
- Katharine Whitehorn
- No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Letter to Koichi Mano
- I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
- Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
- Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
- Cullen Hightower
- You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
- Mortimer Adler
- Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
- Chinese Proverb
- But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try.
- Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
- Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
- William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)
- Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.
- Bern Williams
- When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
- Katharine Whitehorn
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