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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
- Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
- The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
- Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959
- The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
- Oscar Arias Sanchez (1941 - )
- Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
- As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- In most pursuits, one's self is one of the biggest hurdles to get over. You can't pursue something and be committed to it if you're apologizing for it at every party.
- Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
- We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
- Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference
- Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
- Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
- Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
- A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
- Mignon McLaughlin
- Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.
- Phyllis Theroux, in House Beautiful Magazine
- You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957)
- The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
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