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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.: Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), "Molloy", 1951
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.: Leo Buscaglia (1925 - 1998)
Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930, Chapter 9
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Procrastination is the thief of time.: Edward Young (1683 - 1765)
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.': Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), quoted in Rudolf Flesch, ed., "The New Book of Unusual Quotations" (NY: Harper & Row, 1966), p. 311
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Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.: Henry W. Fowler (1858 - 1933), A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.: Pierre Bayle (1647 - 1706), Dictionairre Historique et Critique
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), as quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson (May 8th, 1781)
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