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Random Quotations
The following quotations were randomly selected from the collections selected below . - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy].
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
- Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day.
- Sharon Gold
- It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
- Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
- He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
- Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916), from his essay about the rules of writing
- We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
- Buck Henry
- A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.
- Henry Morgan
- The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.
- Wil Wheaton, WIL WHATON dot NET, 12-07-13
- It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.
- Kirby Larson, Hattie Big Sky, 2006
- Let's have some new cliches.
- Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
- Concentration is my motto. First honesty, then industry, then concentration.
- Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
- The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
- You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
- Carrie Fisher (1956 - )
- Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.
- Alban Goodier
- Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.
- Lorraine Anderson
- The simple solution for disappointment depression: Get up and get moving. Physically move. Do. Act. Get going.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- 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
- Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
- Sue Murphy
- The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), in Christian Science
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