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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Aesop

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Steven Wright

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Some families can trace their ancestry back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their children were last night.

Author Unknown

Everything you can imagine is real.

Pablo Picasso

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Anthony Burgess

The Universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Eden Phillpotts

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Leon Trotsky

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Charles du Bois

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Aeschylus

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Robert Frost

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Sir Francis Bacon

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James Baldwin

Memorable Quotes

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmunde Burke

The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James B. Cabell

Water which is too pure has no fish.

Ts'ai Ken T'an

Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all it's flavour.

William Cowper

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.

Lord Chesterfiel

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when open.

Thomas Dewar

He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know."

Tao Teh Ching

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I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Steven Biko

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

Albert Einstein

Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.

Billie Burke

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly, who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.
When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

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