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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), 'Prejudices: Fourth Series,' 1924
- Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
- Stanislaw Lem (1921 - 2006)
- Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
- Dale Carnegie
- Never promise more than you can perform.
- Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
- Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
- Chilo
- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Man is what he believes.
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
- Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.
- Moses Ibn Ezra, Shirat Yisrael
- Deal with the consequences of your actions, 'cause life ain't no video game.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
- Terry Pratchett
- What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.
- Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 06-15-05
- There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
- Celia Thaxter
- That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.
- Felicia Day, Geek and Sundry, State of the Sundry, 03-25-13
- When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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