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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.
- Michael Pritchard
- Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
- Millicent Fenwick
- We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.
- William Ernest Hocking (1873 - 1966)
- Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.
- Robert Newton Peck, 'A Day No Pigs Would Die'
- To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
- Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks"
- No man ever listened himself out of a job.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.
- Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
- Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
- Olin Miller
- We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9, 1941
- It's better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple
- Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
- M. F. K. Fisher
- There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.
- David Foster, House M.D., TB or Not TB, 2005
- By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
- Grenville Kleiser
- It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
- Stuart's Law of Retroaction
- We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
- Etty Hillesum
- Laughter is by definition healthy.
- Doris Lessing
- Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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