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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Gluttony is not a secret vice.
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
- It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), The Man Upstairs (1914)
- You don’t have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form.
- Francis Ford Coppola (1939 - )
- When a problem can’t be solved, an attitude of acceptance makes room in your mind and heart for solutions to the problems that do need to be solved.
- Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
- Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.
- Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, 2007
- Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
- National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"
- Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
- La Fontaine
- We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.
- David P. Mikkelson, snopes.com, September 8, 2003
- He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.
- Anonymous, (wrongly attributed to the Koran)
- Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
- Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
- Frank Tyger
- Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
- Barry LePatner
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