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Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
Love is letting go of fear.
Gerald Jampolsky
Friends are born, not made.
Henry Adams
Success is a great deodorant.
Elizabeth Taylor
Thinking evil is making evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We become what we think about.
Earl Nightingale
When in doubt, tell the truth.
Mark Twain
Actions lie louder than words.
Carolyn Wells
No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Fortune sides with him who dares.
Virgil
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao Tzu
Beauty has a lot to do with character.
Kevyn Aucoin
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Charles Morgan
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you’re going through hell keep going.
Winston Churchill
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Do what you love and the money will follow.
Marsha Sinetar
If two wrongs don’t make a right, try three.
Laurence J. Peter
Eating without conversation is only stoking.
Marcelene Cox
There is no remedy for love than to love more.
Henry David Thoreau
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
Marshall McLuhan
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso
Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
Paul Wellstone
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson
An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
Publilius Syrus
The history of art is the history of revivals.
Samuel Butler
Education is the transmission of civilization.
A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped.
William Dunbar
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Life is faded away in the everlasting awaited.
Kazeronnie Mak
This is a time of accountability in education.
Kim Rabon
Vadalism: beautiful as a rock in a cop’s face.
Kurt Cobain
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish.
Muhammad Ali
Life is beautiful and beauty comes from within
N. S. Cole
I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing
Oliver Goldsmith
In married life three is company and two none.
Oscar Wilde
If you want love, pray for it, not beg for it.
Ryan Kier
Love and money is equivalent to oil and water.
Scottie Somers
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Seneca
Pretending that we live doesn’t make us alive.
Serj Tankian
How much money were you hoping to get from me?
Shirley MacLaine
This is like the ideal liberal arts education.
Victoria Brinton
Giving is the highest expression of our power.
vivian greene
The heart need love like the vein needs blood.
Vontae Gardner
“Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.” Walt Disney
Walt Disney
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power
William James
When reality bites we forget about the dreams.
Yasmeen Khan
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Anais Nin
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Lionel Trilling
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Louis Kahn
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Novalis
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
Robert Delaunay
I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost
I wasn’t a financial pro, and I paid the price.
Ruth Handler
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey
I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he’s gone.
Steven Wright
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart Udall
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
Wallis Simpson
Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
Willard Gaylin
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
William Gibson
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
William Hazlitt
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
Albert Schweitzer
The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
It was magical. I felt the power and the drama.
Andre Leon Talley
Life is about living the songs others only sing
Andrew Dobson
Routine turns to habit, turns to second nature.
Astraea L. Skylar
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early
Baltasar Gracian
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Benjamin Franklin
Marry your Daughter and eat fresh Fish betimes.
Benjamin Franklin
Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
Bill Shankly
The money was gone and it was tough to operate.
Blane Reese
Love the life you live. Live the life you love.
Bob Marley
certain ambiguities in presidential succession.
Brian Baird
Without love…breath is just a clock, ticking.
Dedrick D. L. Pitter
Science and math are scary to a lot of lawyers.
Gary Clements
There is no such thing as a successful defence.
General George S. Patton
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard Shaw
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Henry David Thoreau
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
Jim Morrison
That’s enough money to really change your life.
Jimmy White
Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
Choosing success over failure is YOUR decision!
John Di Lemme
We all share a piece of the universe within us.
Marcus Gonzales
Love is so much better when you’re not married.
Maria Callas
who says love never lives? Maybe we never lived
oware junior
A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
To enjoy life, we must touch much of it lightly
Voltaire
Women have tended to be their own worst enemies,
Christopher Hayes
A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
Claude Debussy
All imaginable futures are not equally possible.
Kevin Kelly
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.
Rosalind Russell
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler
I think we are a product of all our experiences.
Sanford I. Weill
Time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
Theodore Roethke
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
Thomas Fuller
No one but you owns the title deed to your life.
John Di Lemme
The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.
John Powell
Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.
Mark Twain
Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
Martin Luther
Most women are not as young as they are painted.
Max Beerbohm
You never find yourself until you face the truth
Pearl Bailey
You are far more powerful than you ever dreamed.
Peter McWilliams
If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.
Richard M. DeVos
Life isn’t a matter of milestones but of moments
Rose F. Kennedy
The beauty of life depends upon our good habits.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them
Tennessee Williams
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Napolean Hill
The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
Mary Kay Ash
Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.
Plato
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Robert A. Heinlein
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle
Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
Annette Funicello
If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday
Benjamin Franklin
In love of home, the love of country has its rise
Charles Dickens
To open a shop is easy, to keep it open is an art
Chinese Proverbs
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides
Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
Jean Cocteau
Never underestimate the power of “I’d like that.”
John Mayer
Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.
Marge Piercy
One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare
Mark Twain
First step to SUCCESS: Eliminate fear of failure.
Mitta Xinindlu
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde
A FRIEND is what’s left after the money is gone..
Paul Frazier
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The main factor behind success is – self control.
Rig Veda
Tomorrow is nothing, if youre living in the past.
Scottie Somers
Woman once made equal to man becomes his superior
Socrates
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge
Stendhal
Love is not what we become but who we already are
Stephen Levine
Love has no race, creed, nationality or religion.
Vernest Hines Likkel
I always trust my gut reaction; it’s always right.
Kiana Tom
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia
It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Winston Churchill
Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.
Only what is really oneself has the power to heal.
Carl Gustav Jung
The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks
Confucius
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance
Derek Bok
Leave the past, live the present, love the future.
Dror Ceder
He who is guilty believes all men speak ill of him
Italian Proverb
Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
Les Brown
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
Mother Teresa
Courteous men learn courtesy from the discourteous
Persian Proverb
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Have the heart of a lion and the mind of an eagle.
Roberto Torres
You have to walk, before you can help others walk.
Scottie Somers
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Stephen King
Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.
William Gurnall
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
Woodrow T. Wilson
Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness
Allen Ginsberg
That which does not kill us only makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzche
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo Rosten
We are each responsible for all of our experiences.
Louise L. Hay
I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Samuel Johnson
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
Theodor Adorno
If you command wisely, you’ll be obeyed cheerfully.
Thomas Fuller
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
A man should never neglect his family for business.
Walt Disney
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
Albert Einstein
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Anthony Robbins
Dreams do come true, but you have to work for them.
Bob Crawford
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
C.S. Lewis
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
D.H. Lawrence
A woman’s always younger than a man of equal years.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I like men to behave like men – strong and childish
F. Sagan
Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
Friedrich von Schiller
It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.
Irish Sayings
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It’s not what the dream is but what the dream does.
John Johnson
Love and work…work and love, that’s all there is.
Sigmund Freud
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Margaret Fuller
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
Stendhal
I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.
Stephen King
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
William James
If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi
Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
Blaise Pascal
Intelligence is what you know, Smart is what you do.
Charlie Kennedy
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells
The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
Joan Rivers
Few things in life have as much power as commitment.
John Di Lemme
Good government is no substitute for self-government
Mahatma Gandhi
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Stevie Wonder
A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Life stinks, but that doesn’t mean you don’t enjoy it
Dustin Hoffman
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
Harold Pinter
You can only come to the morning through the shadows.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.
Kate Winslet
Now, I have the power of the tongue, … I can speak.
Ted Turner
Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.
Will Rogers
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
William Hazlitt
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion
Jack Kerouac
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields
LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.
Ambrose Bierce
Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.
Benjamin Franklin
All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream
Edgar Allan Poe
The most efficient labor-saving device is still money.
Franklin P. Jones
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men
George Clemenceau
evil is not power; it is ignorance and misuse of good.
James Allen
Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals
Jim Rohn
Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences.
Marcus Garvey
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Virginia Woolf
Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
Will Durant
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
William Bernbach
Beware of the person who can’t be bothered by details.
William Feather
On the broken stem of dreamsOnly disappointments grow.
William Wetmore Story
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool
Seneca
Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.
Mark Twain
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved.
Thomas Fuller
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin
I live in a house full of women, dolls and conga drums!
Andy Garcia
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Ayn Rand
Error is just as important a condition of life as truth
Carl Gustav Jung
Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
Daniel Goleman
Education has for its object the formation of character
Herbert Spencer
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars
Dwight David Eisenhower
Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
Earl Warren
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state
Edmund Burke
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily Dickinson
It’s really a subterfuge on the part of the government.
George Hoffer
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
George Orwell
Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.
John Webster
He’s the kind of man who picks his friends…to pieces.
Mae West
It is the cause and not the death that makes the martyr
Napoleon Bonaparte
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers
Thomas Carlyle
Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
Titus Livius
The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks
Voltaire
My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
W. H. Auden
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
Lee Iacocca
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Salvador Dali
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.
Marshall McLuhan
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
Marguerite Duras
Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson
The era we are living in today is a dream of coming true.
Walt Disney
Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
Alan Alda
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
Mason Cooley
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
Abraham Lincoln
A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed
Aristotle
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
Barbara De Angelis
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
Charles de Montesquieu
Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself
Edwin Land
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David Thoreau
A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself
Jean Anouilh
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
Julius Caesar
Your life is your message to the world. Make it inspiring.
Lorrin L. Lee
If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
Louise L. Hay
No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds
Mark Twain
An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Martin Buber
Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.
Michael J. Gelb
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love
Nelson Rockefeller
Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors
Oscar Wilde
Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
Peter F. Drucker
To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden
Robert Louis Stevenson
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
William Penn
The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
Walter Annenberg
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
Benjamin Disraeli
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it
Charles R. Swindoll
Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?
Chuck Palahniuk
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
Cicero
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Jane Austen
External superiority is the result of internal inferiority.
Jeffrey Benjamin
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Jules Verne
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
Moliere
Parents — not politics — should run education in America.
Steve Forbes
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
William James
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
Socrates
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
Erich Fromm
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis Bacon
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never.
Charles Caleb Colton
To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.
Confucius
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Jonathan Swift
Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
Napoleon Hill
Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Linus Pauling
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Dale Carnegie
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
Vaclav Havel
Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.
Mariel Hemingway
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said”
Peter Drucker
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon
Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That’s what makes me feel good.
Laetitia Casta
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absense of fear.
Mark Twain
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon Johnson
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
Will Rogers
A person will be just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
Keri Russell
Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.
Robert Kiyosaki
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You’ll be criticized anyway.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
Theodore Roosevelt
There’s no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.
Kevin James
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Carl Sagan
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
Max Lerner
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.
Robert Frost
Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.
Jeanette Winterson
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Theodore Roosevelt
A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz
Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you’ll ever regret.
Lawrence J. Peter
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise Pascal
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family. In another city.
George Burns
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.
Earl Nightingale
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say, I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Be yourself not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.
Henry David Thoreau
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.
Martha Scott
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
W. C. Fields
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.
James Allen
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James Baldwin
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.