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Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
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Belgian Proverb
I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
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George Burns (1896 - 1996)
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
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Sebastien-Roch Nicolas
How his death hung over that house. It’s part of what I know to be true—your absence is greater than your presence.
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Michael Hainey, After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story, 2013
There's no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
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Moliere (1622 - 1673)
Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power."
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Peter McWilliams, Life 101
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
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Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.
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C. V. R. Thompson
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
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Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940)
Partying is such sweet sorrow.
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Robert Byrne
Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
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George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.
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Glaser and Way
Leave well - even 'pretty well' - alone: that is what I learn as I get old.
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Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
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.
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Wayne Dyer
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
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Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Divinatione
In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 06-29-06
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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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