Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
William Pitt
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Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?
William Pitt
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When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.
Fidel Castro, "The Economist", August 27, 1997
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Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.
Nonnee Coan
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Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
Marcel Proust
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
Lucretius
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The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket.
Kin Hubbard
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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin
It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure
He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.
Proverb
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results.
Anon.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Dale Carnegie
They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.
George Earle Buckle
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
James A. Michener
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Anthony Robbins
If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.
Chinese Proverb
It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
Quentin Crisp
The Belief that man is outfitted with an immortal soul, differing altogether from the engines which operate the lower animals, is ridiculously unjust to them. The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man
H. L. Mencken
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans.
Ruben Askew
You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
Herb Cohen
A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.
Source Unknown
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Napoleon Hill
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