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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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Sidney J. Harris
Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.
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Carlos A. Urbizo
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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Elizabeth Goudge
You don’t have to live your life so that your life is suitable for small talk. Life can be lived in ways that circumnavigate a myriad of colors and landscapes.
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Cherie Ve Ard, Technomadia, 04-04-2013
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
Don't live in a town where there are no doctors.
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Jewish Proverb
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My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXLVII
There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
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Elizabeth Clarkson Zwart
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
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Steven Wright (1955 - )
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
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Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
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Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
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Margo Kaufman
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
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Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
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Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Exemplary Novels (1613)
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You can cover a great deal of country in books.
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Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912)
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When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
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Woody Allen (1935 - )
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
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Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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Remember that what you believe will depend very much on what you are.
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Noah Porter (1811 - 1892)
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Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
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Homer (800 BC - 700 BC)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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