Herbert Henry Asquith
“Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.”
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Lewis B. Frumkes
“How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children”
Joseph Rickaby
“A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, …
Rose Cherin
“Heirlooms we don’t have in our family. But stories we’ve got.”
Jacopo Sannazaro
“Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.”
Isak Dineson
“Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.”
George Saunders
“Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.”
Barry Commoner
“Nothing ever goes away.”
Mogens Jallberg
“In democracy it’s your vote that counts; In feudalism it’s your count that votes.”
Marian Evans
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”
Edwin Arnold
“Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads/Let love through good deeds show.”
Francis Cardinal Spellman
“Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.”
Maurice Sendak
“There must be more to life than having everything.”
Julius Rosenwald
“Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.”
Alfred E. Newman
“Crime does not pay … as well as politics.”
Minor White
“No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.”
W. L. George
“Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.”
Burnadette Devlin
“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”
Rod Steiger
“The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.”
Phyllis Theroux
“To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.”
Warren E. Burger
“Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.”
Brian Eno
“I’m struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental …
Joseph Farrell
“If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.”
Wally ‘Famous’ Amos
“Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”
Maxims of Ptahhotep
“Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.”
William J. Broad
“The crux… is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.”
William Langland
“There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.”
Alan Woods
“Blame someone else and get on with your life.”
Mark Ardis
“A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5×11 inch paper cannot be understood.”
Alice Childress
“A gift – be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love – explains itself!… and if receivin’ it …
Latvian Proverb
“A smiling face is half the meal.”
Sue Grafton
“It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.”
Greek Proverb
“First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.”
Richard Diran
“I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.”
Wendell Johnson
“Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.”
Fritz Perls
“I am not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.”
Charles De Secondat
“I’ve never known any trouble that an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.”
Ellis Peters
“Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.”
Mickey Mouse
“Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.”