I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security
Benjamin Franklin
If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
William Hazlitt
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Thomas Jefferson
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.
Paulo Coelho
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!
Ronald Reagan
There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives.
Thou art sure of me:--go, make money
William Shakespeare
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
That illusion of a world so shaped that it echoes every groan, of human beings so tied together by common needs and fears that a twitch at one wrist jerks another, where however strange your experience other people have had it too, where however far you travel in your own mind someone has been there before you - - is all an illusion. We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable.
Virginia Woolf
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
You asked me who I belong to. I belong to you.
Cassandra Clare
I bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house.
Steven Wright
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
Henry David Thoreau
Time and I against any two.
Proverb
Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings.... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette's clothes, and anybody who had passed along the staircase at that moment would have heard irrepressible sobbing.
Victor Hugo
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
It is the truth that irritates a person.
A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
Water for oxen, wine for kings.
The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.
A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others
Bertrand Russell
Drink nothing with out seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Communism is a cow of many; well milked and badly fed.
A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.
Kurt Vonnegut
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.
Swedish Proverb
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them
When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.
No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.
Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
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