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| A. Bronson Alcott | That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. |
| A. J. Toynbee | As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility [read rest of quote] |
| A. Poincelot | Good taste is the flower of good sense. |
| A. Whitney Brown | That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you. |
| Abba Eban | He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150? |
| Abbe Guillaume Raynal | The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and e [read rest of quote] |
| Abigail Adams | Great necessities call out great virtues. |
| Abigail Adams | We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. |
| Abraham Harold Maslow | Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought [read rest of quote] |
| Abraham Lincoln | He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. |
| Abraham Lincoln | If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Whatever you are, be a good one. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. |
| Abraham Lincoln | If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. |
| Abraham Lincoln | I will prepare and some day my chance will come. |
| Abraham Lincoln | I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number. |
| Abraham Lincoln | You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. |
| Bertrand Russell | Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is [read rest of quote] |
| California Civil Code | That which ought to have been done is to be regarded as done. |
| California Civil Code | Superfluity does not vitiate. |
| Dante Alighieri | The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their [read rest of quote] |
| David Darlington | In the mirror like relationship between wine and human beings, Zinfandel owned more reflective prope [read rest of quote] |
| Epicurus | The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story. |
| Helen Keller | I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud. |
| Henry David Thoreau | Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wi [read rest of quote] |
| Izaak Walton | Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. |
| Kahlil Gibran | They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a [read rest of quote] |
| Kahlil Gibran | You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you trul [read rest of quote] |
| Kahlil Gibran | You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly gi [read rest of quote] |
| Kahlil Gibran | Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. |
| Kahlil Gibran | To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what [read rest of quote] |
| Kahlil Gibran | Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and re [read rest of quote] |
| L. B. Walton | Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original [read rest of quote] |
| L. P. Hartley | The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. |
| L. Ron Hubbard | The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing. |
| Lord Essex | Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind. |
| M. C. Escher | We adore chaos because we love to produce order. |
| M. C. Escher | What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness. |
| M. C. Escher | By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observation [read rest of quote] |
| M. C. Escher | Originality is merely an illusion. |
| Margaret Millar | Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses. |
| Mark Twain | A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose. |
| Mark Twain | Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but [read rest of quote] |
| N. W. Dougherty | The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a [read rest of quote] |
| Og Mandino | I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the st [read rest of quote] |
| Ogden Nash | The Pig, if I am not mistaken, supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, [read rest of quote] |
| Ogden Nash | A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. |
| Ogden Nash | When there are monsters there are miracles. |
| Oscar Wilde | A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. |
| P. E. Morris | You are 87% water; the other 13% keeps you from drowning. |
| P. G. Wodehouse | If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. |
| Peter Stack | My tears stuck in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, sh [read rest of quote] |
| Reinhold Niebuhr | God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I [read rest of quote] |
| S. Weinstein | The chalk marks are transient, the formulas eternal. |
| Samuel Johnson | Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. |
| Seneca | If virtue precede us every step will be safe. |
| Sir Francis Bacon | There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom |
| Somerset Maugham | There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. |
| Swedish Proverb | Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more Talk less, say more Hate less, love more And all g [read rest of quote] |
| T. E. Lawrence | All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i [read rest of quote] |
| T. S Eliot | We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we star [read rest of quote] |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. |
| Thomas Guthrie | Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world. |
| Thomas Higginson | The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in th [read rest of quote] |
| Tyron Edwards | Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superio [read rest of quote] |
| Unknown | Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. |
| Unknown | Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. |
| W. Clement Stone | Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance. |
| Wilfrid Sheed | One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom fro [read rest of quote] |
| Woody Allen | More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopele [read rest of quote] |
| Woody Allen | More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and d [read rest of quote] |
