Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
Chinese Proverb
Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
Ronald Reagan
See, winners embrace hard work.
Lou Holtz
To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.
As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved.
Lester B. Pearson
The tongue can paint what the eye can't see.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln
Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
Jeff Bridges
One step at a time is good walking.
When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.
I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.
Andrew Cuomo
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Victor Hugo
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine. Pleasure for one year a marriage; but pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.
Robert Trout
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had.
Jodi Picoult
From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.
Kathleen Sebelius
Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
And think of how we challenged the idea of a male dominated Parliament with All-Women shortlists and made the cause of gender equality central to our government. We were right to do so.
Ed Miliband
In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter.
Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age.
Bjork
If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people.
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.
George Eliot
A maker of idols is never an idolater.
Respect for ones parents is the highest duty of civil life.
What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away.
Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.
To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.
Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
George Orwell
Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.
Ceremony is the smoke of friendship.
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking.
Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.
Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.
The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow.
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