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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
- Maurice Chevalier (1888 - 1972)
- Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
- [Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog, but only enough so that the ASPCA doesn't bring you up on charges.
- Robert Downey Jr., Entertainment Weekly, 11-21-08
- There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
- Robert Half
- Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?'
- Johann K. Lavater
- Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
- Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964), interview, 1959
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost, but climb.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
- At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
- Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959)
- The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
- Willem de Kooning (1904 - )
- To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.
- L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
- Wayne Dyer
- The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
- Francis Maitland Balfour
- If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
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