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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred.
- Meredith Willson, The Music Man
- That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....
- Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown
- He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
- Unknown
- Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
- Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
- Edward De Bono
- Discretion is not the better part of biography.
- Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932), in Michael Holroyd Lytton, Strachey vol. 1 (1967)
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
- To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- A good home must be made, not bought.
- Joyce Maynard, "Domestic Affairs"
- To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but where they ought to be.
- Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )
- There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
- Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 02-23-10
- Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
- I am a deeply superficial person.
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
- I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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