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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
- Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost, 1934
- We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
- Etty Hillesum
- This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
- A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Sybil, 1845
- There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
- Clint Eastwood (1930 - )
- One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
- Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105
- To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
- Charles Buxton
- Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
- Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
- We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
- Ray Bradbury (1920 - )
- What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959), quoted in his obituary, April 9, 1959
- The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 11-11-04
- The less you can live on, the more chance your idea will succeed. This is true even after you’ve 'made it'.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 31. Remain Frugal., 08-22-04
- It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
- Alfred Adler (1870 - 1937)
- The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
- Quentin Crisp
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