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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
- Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC)
- I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
- Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)
- Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925
- Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.
- Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
- It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.
- Francoise Sagan (1935 - )
- It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, 1854
- Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- I like life. It's something to do.
- Ronnie Shakes
- A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
- Saki (1870 - 1916), "The Square Egg", 1924
- Joy is not in things; it is in us.
- Richard Wagner
- As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
- Dick Cavett (1936 - )
- Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
- Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
- The human heart cannot love the whole world. And if you try to put the whole world into your heart, you will eventually lose touch with your own humanity.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher, 05-01-07
- I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here."
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, June 2003
- About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
- Gloria Pitzer, in Reader's Digest, 1979
- Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
- Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
- Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2
- Secret thoughts and open countenance will go safely over the whole world.
- Scipione Alberti
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