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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
- Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.
- Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
- If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.
- Dorothee Solle
- You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- Permanent weight loss doesn’t come with an on and off switch. It is not something you do for a little while and think it is going to change your body.
- Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
- As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Aspiring to a small business that does what it does very well is a noble pursuit.
- Narenda Rocherolle, Cashing In or Selling Out, SXSW 2006
- As I see it, every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
- Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
- There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
- Thomas Sowell (1930 - )
- Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945), Tel Quel 2 (1943)
- The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
- John Sladek
- This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The American Scholar, August 31, 1837
- It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
- Freeman Dyson (1923 - )
- Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
- Kathleen Norris
- Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
- Mary MacCracken
- I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
- Herb Caen
- The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961), in Edward R. Murrow television interview
- The only cure for grief is action.
- George Henry Lewes
- The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
- Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
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