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“Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.”
Category: Quotes of the day
John Maynard Keynes
“I do not know which makes a man more conservative?to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.”
Susan Ertz
“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.”
Matthew V. Lewis
“If you don’t think your life is worth more than someone else’s, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.”
Peter Blake
“Great part of being a grownup, you never have to do anything.”
George Santayana
“Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.”
Ellen Glasglow
“The only difference between a rut and a grave… is in their dimensions.”
Harriet Lerner
“Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.”
Indira Gandhi
“We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
Colin Powell
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
Dr. Frank Crane
“Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is …
Herman Wouk
“Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.”
Frank Deford
“I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.”
John Gaule
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.”
Norman Ford
“Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.”
William Hutton
“The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.”
Jewish Proverb
“Don’t be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don’t be bitter, lest you be spewed out.”
Earl Warren
“I’m very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but …
Virginia Woolf
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
Matthew Oliphant
“I don’t think there is a proper way to celebrate something which makes you happy.”
Marquis de la Grange
“When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.”
Mary Stewart
“I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.”
Dan McKinnon
“Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.”
John W. Gardner
“History never looks like history when you are living through it.”
Matthias
“Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations …
Sharon Salzberg
“If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to …
Yogi Berra
“Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.”
Jean Cocteau
“Art is science made clear.”
Marilyn Manson
“Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.”
Jef Mallett
“Writing well mean never having to say, ‘I guess you had to be there.'”
Luisa Sigea
“Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible – not to have run away.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against …
Jean Giraudoux
“Only the mediocre are always at their best.”
Steve Jobs
“It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.”
Jilly Cooper
“The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.”
George Wald
“A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as …
Pam Davis
“Lies are like children: they’re hard work, but it’s worth it because the future depends on them.”