The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
Benjamin Franklin
Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's. She changes it more often.
Oliver Herford
Upper classes are a nation's past, the middle class its future.
Ayn Rand
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas -- including this one.
Dan Rather
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemans speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.
Sir Winston Churchill
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Home is behind, the world ahead, and there are many paths to tread through shadows to the edge of night, until the stars are all alight.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Ambrose Bierce
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...
Orison Swett Marden
There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
Johnny Carson
Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Lord Byron
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.
John Stuart Mill
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
John Wooden
Who the hell are we to determine the next course of evolution for these people?
Captain Jean-Luc Picard
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Frank Herbert
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Henry Ward Beecher
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Thank are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare - Hamlet, A
I met Woz when I was 13, at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was, like, the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends, because we shared an interest in computers and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.
Steve Jobs
There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George Orwell
The first mistake in public business is going into it.
Cut out all those exclamation marks. An exclamation mark is like laughing at your own joke.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
Manana is often the busiest day of the week.
Proverb
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