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There is no wisdom without love.
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N. Sri Ram
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
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Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
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Nick Faldo
Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high.
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Adrienne E. Gusoff
Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!
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Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Eric Kaplan, Big Bang Theory, The Agreement Dissection, 2011
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), (attributed)
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.
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Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
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Maya Angelou (1928 - )
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
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Minna Thomas Antrim
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
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Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
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George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
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Burt Bacharach (1928 - )
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
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Teena Booth, Falling From Fire
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
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Terence (185 BC - 159 BC)
The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.
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Henry J. Tillman
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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