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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool. Yet there are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Free advice is worth the price.
- Robert Half
- The moment a man stops dreaming is the moment he petrifies inside...
- Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013), Movie Reveiw of "American Beauty"
- No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
- Judge Gideon J. Tucker
- Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.
- Scott Adams (1957 - )
- Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945)
- The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Dorothy Nevill
- People are always trying to [mess] up other people's live's by telling lies about 'em. You wanna really [mess] somebody's life up? Tell the truth about 'em. They ain't never gonna be the same.
- Brian Buckner, True Blood, Bad Blood, 2010
- Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
- Kathleen Norris
- When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
- Robin Morgan
- Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
- Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
- Dick Clark
- Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.
- Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
- The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
- Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
- Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Fish and visitors smell in three days.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736
- I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.
- Will Durst
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