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- Acorns tasted good before bread. --Anon
- Accept your genius and say what you think. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. --Author McBride Bloch
- A flower falls even though we love it. A weed grows even though we don't love it. --Dogen
- A great man is the man who does something for the first time. --Alexander Smith
- A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. --Samuel Butler
- All animals except man know that the ultimate joy in life is to enjoy it. --Samuel Butler
- All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.--Ellen Glasgow
- All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. --Samuel Butler
- All trouble in the world is due to the fact that a man cannot sit still in a room. --Blaise Pascal
- Almost everything comes from almost nothing. --Henri Frederic Amiel
- Always do one thing less than you think you can. --Bernard Baruch
- Always imitate the behavior of the winner when you loose. --Franz Grillparzer
- Always remember that you are unique - just like everyone else. --Unknown author
- A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. --Benjamin Franklin
- A man of fifty is responsible for his face. --Edwin McMasters Stanton
- A man's mind is hidden in his writings; criticism brings it to light. --Solomon ben Yehuda ibn Gabirol
- America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence with out civilization in between. --Oscar Wilde
- Amusement is the happiness of those that cannot think. --Alexander Pope
- An open mind, like an open window should be screened to keep the bugs out. --Virginia Hutchinson
- Anyone can have an off decade. --Larry Cole
- A professional is someone who can do his best work even when he doesn't feel like it. --Alfred Alistair Cooke
- Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. --Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- A ship in the harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for. --John A Shedd
- As if you could kill time without killing eternity. -- Henry David Thoreau
- A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. -- Anonymous
- A wounded deer leaps the highest. --Emily Dickinson
- Beginnings are apt to be shadowy. --Rachel Carson
- Be careful how you interpret the world, it is like that. --Erich Heller
- Beware the flatterer; he feeds you with an empty spoon. --Cosino De Gregrio
- Bloom where you are planted. --Anonymous
- Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion. -- Will Rogers
- Chaos often breeds life, when order often breeds habit. --Henry Brooks Adams
- Children are living messages we send to a time we will not see. --Neil Postman
- Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. --Bernard Berenson
- Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. --Oscar Wilde
- Cynicism - the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. -- Joseph Russell Lynes, Jr.
- Dare to be naive. --Buckminster Fuller
- Deadlines are the mothers of invention. --John M. Shanahan
- Difficulties exist to be surmounted. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom. --Sir Bayle Roche
- Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought. --Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- Do it big or stay in bed. --Larry Kelly
- Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. --Anonymous
- Doors don't slam open. --John M. Shanahan
- Doubt breeds doubt. --Franz Grillparzer
- Do well and you will have no need of ancestors. --Voltaire
- Do you prefer that you be right, or that you be happy? --A Course in Miracles
- Effort is ugly. --B. Upton
- Endurance is frequently a form of indecision. --Princess Elizabeth Bibesco
- Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. --Marie von Ebner- Eschenbach
- Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. --Pablo Picasso
- Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. --Eric Hoffer
- Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use. --Phillips Brooks
- Every true genius is bound to be naive. --Johann Christop Friedrich von Schiller
- Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. --Italian proverb
- Failure is impossible. --Susan B. Anthony
- Find a need and fill it. --Ruth Stafford Peale
- Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them. --Suzanne Necker
- Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash. --Harriet Rubin
- Genius does what it must, talent does what it can. --Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- There is no great genius without some touch of madness. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. --Gail Sheehy
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept. --Ken Keyes Jr.
Happiness hates the timid. -- Eugene O'Neill
Have no friends not equal to yourself. --Confucius
Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing. --Paul Valery
Here I am; send me. --IS. 6:8
He who reflects too much will accomplish little. --Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it. --Winston Churchill
Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs. --John Davis
I can, therefore I am. --Simone Weil
I can take reality in small does, but as a lifestyle it is too confining. --Lily Tomlin
I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being. --Anatole France
I couldn't wait for success...so I went ahead without it. -- Jonathon Winters
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. --John Galsworth
I dislike arguments of any kind, they are always vulgar and often convincing. --Oscar Wilde
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. --Jane Ellis Hopkins
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have too. --Elvis Presley
If a Plant's Roots are Too Tight, Repot. --Gardening Headline, The New York Times
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. --Justice Arthur Goldberg
If God had wanted me to be otherwise. He would have created me otherwise. --Johann von Goethe
If I had known what it would be like to have it all... I might have settled for less. --Lily Tomlin
If not now, when? --Talmud
If you obey all the rules you will miss the fun. --Katherine Hepburn
If you speak the truth, have one foot in the stirrup. --Turkish proverb
If you want to kill time try working it to death. --Sam Levenson
If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself in shallow water. --Bulgarian proverb
I have an existential map. It has 'You are Here' written all over it. --Steven Wright
I have no fear that the result of our experiment may be that men will be trusted to govern themselves without master. -- Thomas Jefferson
In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability. --George Gilder
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. --Douglas Adams
Imagination is more important than knowledge. --Albert Einstein
I am an idealist. I don't know where I am going, but I am on my way. --Carl Sandburg
Imitation is criticism. --William Blake
In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge. --Dennis Dugan
Instant gratification takes too long. --Carrie Fisher
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. --Edgar Watson Howe
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves. --Blaise Pascal
Integrity is praised and starves. --Decimus Junius Juvenalis
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. --Anatole France
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. --Allen H. Neuharth
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated his ability. --Oscar Wilde
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later. --Lucimar Santos De Lima
It is always the secure who are humble. --Gilbert Keith Chesterton
It is better to wear out one's shoes than one's sheets. --Genoese proverb
It's better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. --Oscar Wilde
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. --Saint Jerome
It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it. --Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. --Walt Disney
It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. --Howard Ruff
I want to do it because I want to do it. --Amelia Earhart
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. --Irene Peter
Keep your promises to yourself. --David Harold Fink
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. --George Santayana
Learning is what most folks do for a living in the 21st century. --Perelman
Life guarantees a chance - not a fair shake. --Anonymous
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. --Samuel Butler
Luck is the residue of design. --Branch Rickey
Marconi invented radio, but Ted Husing knew what to do with it. --Ralph Edwards
Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities. --Napoleon Bonaparte
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. --Susan Ertz
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. --Joseph Joubert
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. --Oscar Wilde
Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks in the mirror, he sees a monkey. --Malcome de Chazal
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. --Oscar Wilde
My understanding of truth can change from day to day. And my commitment must be to truth rather than to consistency. --Ram Dass
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. --Friedrich Nietzsche
Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice. --Vauvenargues
Nobody realizes that some people expend a tremendous amount of energy merely to be normal. --Albert Camus
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. --Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen
No human thing is of serious importance. --Plato
No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back. --Turkish proverb
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. --Titus Maccuis Plautus
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have. --Emily Auguste Chartier
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. --Oscar Wilde
One can go a long way after one is tired. --French proverb
One completely overcomes only what one has assimilated. --Andre Gide
One man with courage makes a majority. --Andrew Jackson
One of the symptoms of approaching a nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. --Bertrand Russell
Only dead fish swim with the stream. --Anonymous
Only the shallow know themselves. --Oscar Wilde
Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time. --Catherine Deneuve
Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble. --Frank Tyger
Opposition enflames the enthusiast, never converts him. --Johann Christop Friedrich von Schiller
Originality is the art of concealing your source. -Franklin Jones
Optimism is an intellectual choice. --Diana Schneider
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over education from happening. --William Troy Harris
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. --Anonymous
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. --Antisthenes
People who know how to act are never preachers. --Emerson
People living deeply have no fear of death. --Anais Nin
Pleasure is the object, duty and goal of all rational creatures. --Voltaire
Praise undeserved is satire in disguise. --Broadhurst
I can take reality in small doses, but as a lifestyle it is too confining. --Lily Tomlin
Problems are messages ignored. --Anonymous
Prosperity makes few friends. --Vauvenargues
Reality is a crutch for people who don't have enough imagination. --Unknown Author
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. --Lily Tomlin
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. --Lily Tomlin
Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request. --Sir Arthur Helps
Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength. --Eric Hoffer
Simple pleasures...are the last refuge of the complex. --Oscar Wilde
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. --Leonard da Vinci
Solemnity is the device of the body to hide the faults of the mind. --Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches. --Donald A. Miller
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. --Thomas Fuller
Sometimes I have believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. --Lewis Carroll
Style is the dress of thoughts. --Lord Phillip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Success is an accident...well placed. --John M. Shanahan
Success has ruined many a man. --Benjamin Franklin
The basis of optimism is sheer terror. --Oscar Wilde
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. --Napoleon I
The butterfly counts not months, but moments and has time enough. --Rabindranath Tagore
The cleverly expressed opposite to any widely accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. --Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds out there is no "top". --Nancy Barcus
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself for who I am, it is then that I can change. --Carl Rogers
The graveyards are full of indispensable men. --Charles de Gaulle
The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance. --Baltasar Gracian
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more. --Kin Hubbard
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. --Helen Keller
The hole and the patch should be commensurate. --Thomas Jefferson
The minority is always right. --Henrik Johan Ibsen
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. --Richared Bach
The morning has gold in its mouth. German proverb
The only interesting answers are those which destroy the question. --Susan Sontag
There are 2 ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. --Edith Wharton
There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed. --Leo Tolstoy
There is a time for departure even when there's no place to go. --Tennessee Williams
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. --Ken Olsen, President, Chairman, and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The reward for conformity is everyone likes you but yourself. --Rita Mae Brown
The soul is not a thing. It is a place from which to speak. --Julio Olalla
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. Ignorance may deride it. But in the end, there it is. --Winston Churchill
The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it. --Stanley Kubrick
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. --James A. Garfield
Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his own pulse in not getting any better. --Hubert van Zeller
To be social is to be forgiving. --Robert Frost
To be honest, one must be inconsistent. --H.G. Wells
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. --Georg Christoph Lichenberg
To exaggerate is to weaken. --Jean Francois de La Harpe
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. --Oscar Wilde
If you want a place in the sun, you have to put up with a few blisters. --Abigail Van Buren
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what the are. --Malcolm Forbes
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. --Mae West
Total absence of humor renders life impossible. --Colette
To think is to say no. --Emile Auguste Chartier
Trust your hunches. They are usually based on facts filed just below the conscious level. --Dr. Joyce Brothers
Learn how to feel joy. --Seneca
Truth is I have always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers. --Lily Tomlin
Unpredictability, too, can be monotonous. --Eric Hoffer
Very simple ideas lie within the reach of only complex minds. --Remy de Gourmont
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. --Jonathan Swift
Vows begin when hope dies. --Leonardo Da Vinci
Weak people never give way when they ought to. --Jean Francois
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? --Niels Bohr
We all find time to do what we really want to do. --William Feather
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all live under the same horizon. --Konrad Adenauer
We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. --Jean Francois de La Harpe
We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge. --Rutherford D. Rogers
We choose our joys and our sorrows long before we experience them. --Kahlil Gibran
We fear the thing we want the most. --Dr. Robert Anthony
We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. --Carlos Castaneda
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. --Rabindranath Tagore
Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself. --Georg Groddeck
What I cannot love, I overlook. --Anais Nin
What isn't tried won't work. --Claude McDonald
What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. --Aristotle
What we learn with pleasure, we never forget. --Alfred Mercier
What you think means more than anything else in your life. --George Mathew Adams
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him. --Henry David Thoreau
When nothing is sure, everything is possible. --Margaret Drabble
When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made. --Anonymous
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. --Eric Hoffer
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong. --Oscar Wilde
When science discovers the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. --Bernard Baily
When somebody asks you to do the impossible, ask him to dribble a football. --Anonymous
When you can't solve a problem, manage it. --Dr. Robert H. Schuller
"Why not" is the slogan for an interesting life. --Mason Cooley
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. --Herman Hesse
A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody. --Anonymous
With most men, unbelief from one thing springs from belief in another. --Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Wood may remain ten years in the water, but it will never become a crocodile. --Congolese proverb
You are only as sick as your secrets. --Anonymous
You can promote your healing by your thinking. --James E. Sweeney
You can't have everything. Where would you put it? --Steven Wright
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. --Ethel Barrymore
Your worst humiliation is only someone else's momentary entertainment. --Karen Crockett
You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you. --Johann Christop Friedrich von Schiller
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains, is the Zen you bring up there. --Robert M. Pirsig
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. --George Santayana
The angry people are those people who are most afraid. --Dr. Robert Anthony
To do is to be. To be is to do. The way to do is to be. --Socrates, --Plato, --Lao-Tzu
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