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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
- E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
- Health is not valued till sickness comes.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
- No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
- What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 - 1962), "Discovery", 1964
- Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
- Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
- Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
- Feel the fear and do it anyway.
- Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, 1988
- The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
- Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)
- Why was I born with such contemporaries?
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.
- Arthur Wellesley (1769 - 1852), (first Duke of Wellington)
- I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
- Edward Chilton
- What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
- Anna Jameson
- There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
- John Updike (1932 - ), Problems and Other Stories
- Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.
- Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy"
- The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
- Stephen Ambrose (1936 - 2002), in Fast Company
- Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
- J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
- Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919
- The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
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