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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
- Dorothy C. Fisher (1879 - 1958), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
- The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
- Henry L. Stimson (1867 - 1950)
- If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
- Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.
- Ed Greenwood
- Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
- David Frost
- Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.
- Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003
- Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
- Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
- 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
- Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
- Ramsay Clark
- There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
- Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), The Song of the Lark, 1915
- By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
- Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC)
- Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
- The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), What Is Man? (1906)
- Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
- Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
- People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
- James Gordon, M.D.
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