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The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
- Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852), 1836
- One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.
- Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
- A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), (attributed)
- For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.
- A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
- What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.
- Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
- Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1820
- This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 03, 2004
- Good habits result from resisting temptation.
- Ancient Proverb
- Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.
- Evan Davis
- It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.
- Mick Jagger (1943 - )
- A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme, 1737
- Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
- Sophia Loren (1934 - )
- I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
- Louise Nevelson (1900 - 1988)
- Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
- Ernst Haas, Comment in workshop, 1985
- I hate women because they always know where things are.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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