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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death. - Joan D. Vinge, Catspaw

It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. - Jerome K. Jerome

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. - Dave Barry

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. - Colette

Be kinder than necessary, because everyone you meet is fighting some sort of battle.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. - Thomas Jefferson

When you drink the water, remember the spring. -- Chinese Proverb

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. - Jane Wagner

I think it would be a good idea. -- Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. - H. L. Mencken

Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper. - Kazuo Inamori

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. - Jilly Cooper

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. - Emo Phillips

Throughout the world, so-called holy men have maintained that to look at a woman is something totally wrong: they say you cannot come near to God if you indulge in sex, therefore they push it aside although they are eaten up with it. But by denying sexuality they put out their eyes and cut out their tongues for they deny the whole beauty of the earth. They have starved their hearts and minds; they are dehydrated human beings; they have banished beauty because beauty is associated with woman. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti

One wouldn’t want to meet the ghost of a dog even if one didn’t believe in him. — LM Montgomery, The Golden Road

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it. - Mark Twain

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. - Henry David Thoreau

Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings. - W. Lee Grant

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - William Faulkner

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.  - Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. - Edmund Burke

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. - George Iles

Never answer a critic, unless he's right. -- Bernard M. Baruch

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. - Lord Chesterfield

A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else. - Cardinal de Retz, Memoires

A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else. - Cardinal de Retz, Memoires

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. - Garrison Keillor

Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first. - Anna Quindlen

Nothing. It means nothing." -- Charles Chaplin to Albert Einstein when the latter asked him "what does it mean!?" about the throngs of cheering people surrounding them in New York City

"You're real lucky if you manage to have success in a profession that's fun." - Clint Eastwood

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. - Peter Ustinov

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath. - Dave Barry

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. - Russell Baker

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds. -- Tryon Edwards

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. - Margaret Mitchell

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. - Edward Chapin

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. - Horace Mann

Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield. - Price Cobb

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles M. Schulz

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. - Robert Orben

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. - W. Somerset Maugham

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. - John Wilmot

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. - Stanislaw J. Lec

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. - Benjamin Disraeli

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer. - From the 1985 movie Bliss

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old" - Franz Kafka

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part. - Aimee Mullins

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. - Thomas Fuller

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. - John Viscount Morley

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. - Evan Esar

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. - George Bernard Shaw

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head. - Dennis Miller

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. - Sidney J. Harris

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. - Charles Dickens

Art is life in concentrated form. - Unknown

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. - Gerry Spence

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket. -- Kin Hubbard

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. - Victor Hugo

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. - Oscar Wilde

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. - Miss Piggy

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. - Margo Kaufman

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. - Alexander Humboldt

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you. - Sarah Ban Breathnach

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know. - Joanna Field

Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned. -- Gautama Buddha

I am no more humble than my talents require. - Oscar Levant

The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place. -- George Bernard Shaw

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. - G. K. Chesterton

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. - Harold Taylor

The best way out is always through. -- Robert Frost

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. - Aldous Huxley

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. - Arthur C. Clarke

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. - Bertrand Russell

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame. - Rod Steiger

The truth is more important than the facts. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere. - W. Somerset Maugham

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice. - Meister Eckhart

Laughter is the closest distance between two people. - Victor Borge

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? - Henry David Thoreau

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. - George Jean Nathan

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. - Abraham Maslow

Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. - Richard Greenberg

[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. - Thomas Dekker

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. - Aesop

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind. - John Stuart Mill

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. - Margaret Cho

Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance. - Unknown

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. - Bob Newhart

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. - Voltaire

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away. - Phyllis Mcginley

"You know you're old when you notice how young the derelicts are getting." - Jeanne Phillips

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. - Gloria Pitzer

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. - Bill Gates

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. - Andre Maurois

We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here? - Steve Jobs

On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero. - Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996

I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye. - Chuck Sigars

A white birch is a beautiful Pagan maiden who has never lost the Eden secret of being naked and unashamed. - LM Montgomery, Rilla Of Ingleside (LMG's books are warmly recommended)

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. - Patricia Moyes

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. - Marie Curie

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. - Al Franken

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. - Anonymous

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. - Vernon Howard

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. - Lord Byron

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. - Samuel Johnson

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. - Lydia M. Child

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. - Susan Sontag

I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself. - Kathryn L. Nelson

Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills. - Minna Thomas Antrim

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?  —  L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us. - Charles de Gaulle

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. - Og Mandino

The best way to get approval is not to need it. - Hugh Macleod

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.  - Steve Jobs

My life wasn’t really going anywhere. I was part of the whole goth/death-metal subculture, but it wasn’t making me happy, it was all a bit gloomy. — Richmond, The I.T. Crowd

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. - Dee Hock

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen. - John le Carre

                                       Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. - Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase"

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is. - Elbert Hubbard

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