Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone's physical, mental, and emotional condition is a combination of both.
I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.
Mark Twain
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
If you have nothing to say, say nothing.
By indignities men come to dignities.
Francis Bacon
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.
We must use time creatively.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
My mother had morning sickness after I was born.
Rodney Dangerfield
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
Thomas Jefferson
October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
Steven Wright
We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
Rudyard Kipling
A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential -- there was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost. It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.
Everyone went donuts over them
Leslie Hochsztein
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Oscar Wilde
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
Mahatma Gandhi
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
H. L. Mencken
Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
Johann von Goethe
Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
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