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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Thinking you won’t die is yet another side effect of dying.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
- Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)
- A Hospital is no place to be sick.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
- William Arthur Ward
- 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)
- I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
- Spanish Proverb
- Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
- Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
- Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878)
- Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
- Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
- Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
- Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
- Andy Rooney (1919 - )
- Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
- Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), Letter to Gay, October 6, 1727
- Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true.
- Solomon Short
- Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.
- Unknown
- Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.
- Unknown
- Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
- John Updike (1932 - )
- The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
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