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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
- Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Miscellanies, 1711
- The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
- The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845), referring to Macaulay
- It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
- Saskya Pandita
- Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?
- Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
- He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
- Bessie A. Stanley
- Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.
- Audrey Giorgi
- I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
- Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
- Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
- Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
- Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.
- Bill Kelly, Blast from the Past, 1999
- In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
- Thomas Pickering (1931 - )
- If you don't know to the second when a drunk's gonna vomit on you, you don't survive as a strip club bouncer.
- Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz, Home on the Strange, 10-02-07
- The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
- To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
- Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684), 'The Cid,' 1636
- Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.
- Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean
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