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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - There is no wisdom without love.
- N. Sri Ram
- Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
- 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.
- Nick Faldo
- Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high.
- Adrienne E. Gusoff
- Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!
- 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.
- 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.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
- Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
- Maya Angelou (1928 - )
- Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
- Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
- 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?
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
- The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
- 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.
- Teena Booth, Falling From Fire
- Nothing is said that has not been said before.
- Terence (185 BC - 159 BC)
- The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.
- Henry J. Tillman
- Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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