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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953
- Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.
- Chilo
- Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arab Proverb
- First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
- Greek Proverb
- To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), An Essay on Self-Reliance
- To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
- Farmers' Almanac, 1978
- You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
- John J. Plomp
- It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
- Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
- Doug Larson
- Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
- Doug Larson
- Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.
- Unknown
- Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), in Good Housekeeping
- Life ain't like books. Books got somebody writin' 'em and tryin' to entertain ya. Life is more like a set of Legos. Unless you take care of 'em, you lose a few pieces and you end up steppin' on 'em with bare feet. You gotta take care of your life.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: 35 Minutes Away From Home, 02-29-12
- Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- All movements go too far.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
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