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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behaviour and the spere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.
- Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
- If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas
- We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
- May Sarton
- The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
- Leo Rosten (1908 - )
- We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), The Stones of Venice, 1880
- For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
- Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)
- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- It's all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end.
- Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark, 2003
- It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.
- Patricia Russell-McCloud
- Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- Life is too short for traffic.
- Dan Bellack
- Men are born to succeed, not fail.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
- This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
- Hortense Calisher
- People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
- Timothy Leary (1920 - 1996)
- Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863
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