It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance, which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness. Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.
Virginia Woolf
A word too much always defeats its purpose.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.
Ernest Hemingway
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
'It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
Albert Camus
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Charles Monroe Schulz
Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must.
Neil Gaiman
Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self.
I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.
All material changes in our everyday life are small in comparison with those in our spiritual life.
Leo Tolstoy
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Benjamin Franklin
Time spent on hiring is time well spent.
Robert Half
No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
Thomas C. Haliburton
He fell asleep murmuring 'Sanity is not statistical,' with the feeling that this remark contained in it a profound wisdom.
George Orwell
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.
Jodi Picoult
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
Punctuality is the soul of business.
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.
Stephen King
Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
Edward F. Halifax
All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
Voltaire
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
We want to deal with this up front, ... The goal is to be able to frame the size of the matter. These are historical financials from prior management; it has nothing to do with the current business. We look forward to getting this behind us.
Stephen Richards
Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.
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