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Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste. -Benjamin Franklin

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. -Lord Chesterfield

Terry Eagleton

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no …

Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world. -Ralph B. Perry

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. -Charles Baudelaire

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence. -Christopher Marlowe

"One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills." – Earl Wilson

“One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.” – Earl Wilson

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If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. – Richard D. Rosen

Fashions fade, but style is eternal. -Yves Saint-Laurent

"A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure." – Henry Kissinger

“A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.” – Henry Kissinger

"Malcolm in the Middle" – Frankie Muniz

“Malcolm in the Middle” – Frankie Muniz

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. -Richard Bach

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. -Austin O’Malley

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. -Trevor Mcdonald

Success covers a multitude of blunders. -George Bernard Shaw

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level. -A. Alvarez

"the single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families." – Malcolm Gladwell

“the single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.” – Malcolm …

"Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens." – Emmanuel Teney

“Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.” – Emmanuel Teney

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers. -George Henry Lewes

John Calvin

“Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, …

Ever notice that people never say It’s only a game when they’re winning? -Ivern Ball

"If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes." – Malcolm Gladwell

“If a window is broken and left unrepaired, people walking by will conclude that no one cares and no one is in charge. Soon, more …

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve. -Henry David Thoreau

Sarah Knowles Bolton

Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears. Be brave today. The darkest night will pass. And golden rays will usher in the dawn. Sarah Knowles …

George Pettie

Marrye whyle you are young, that you may see your fruite florish before your selves fade, that you bee not in doubt or dispayre of …

Stirling Moss

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster. Stirling Moss quotes

Chess is ruthless: you’ve got to be prepared to kill people. -Nigel Short

Nothing is more elegant than ready money! -French Proverb

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. -Bible

"I’ve had Malcolm since I was 12." – Frankie Muniz

“I’ve had Malcolm since I was 12.” – Frankie Muniz

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. -Cyril Connolly

Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice. -Sidney J. Harris

"To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder" – Albert Einstein

“To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder” – Albert Einstein

William Cullen Bryant

“Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness-a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.” William Cullen Bryant quotes

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the nation and its destiny. -South African Proverb

Don’t ever slam a door, you might want to go back. -Don Herold

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." – Orson Welles

“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. …

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