If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert Hubbard
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert Hubbard
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
John Dewey
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Tallulah Bankhead
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Kin Hubbard
It is new fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), Philosophical Dictionary, 1764
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Albert Einstein
People can be divided into three classes, the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no idea what has happened.
Source Unknown
A brave man dies but once, a coward many times.
American Indian Proverb, Iowa
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
Pierre Charron
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck
Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.
William Gilmore Simms
A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
Robert Burton
Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.
Source Unknown
TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Hans Selye
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandara Carey
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure
Colin Powell
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Hugh White
Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
Frank A. Clark
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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