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| You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. |
Woody Allen |
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| Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. |
Napoleon |
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| Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. |
Napoleon |
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| History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. |
Napoleon |
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| Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours.Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words. |
Napoleon |
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| To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health, and power. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| When you have nothing to say, say nothing. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it for when we fail our pride supports us when we succeed, it betrays us. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| He that knows himself, knows others and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but--live for it. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| In America every woman has her set of girl-friends some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who 'come out' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| There are two modes of establishing our reputation to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| We hate some persons because we do not know them and we will not know them because we hate them. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village If you would know, and not be known, live in a city. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. |
Robert Orben |
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| Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. |
Robert Orben |
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| Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral. |
Robert Orben |
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| Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. |
Robert Orben |
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| Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. |
Robert Orben |
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| If you can laugh together, you can work together. |
Robert Orben |
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| Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. |
Robert Orben |
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| Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. |
Robert Orben |
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| I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. |
Robert Orben |
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| Never raise your hand to your children it leaves your midsection unprotected. |
Robert Orben |
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| There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. |
Robert Orben |
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| To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so. |
Robert Orben |
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| He profits most who serves best. |
Arthur F. Sheldon |
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| Rumack Yes I am serious... and don't call me Shirley. |
Airplane |
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| Captain Oveur Joey, do you like movies about gladiators |
Airplane |
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| Little Girl No thanks, I take it black, like my men. |
Airplane |
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| Elaine Dickinson There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane |
Airplane |
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| Ted Striker It was a rough place - the seediest dive on the wharf. Populated with every reject and cutthroat from Bombay to Calcutta. It's worse than Detroit. |
Airplane |
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| Steve McCroskey Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines |
Airplane |
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| Steve McCroskey Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue |
Airplane |
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| Jive Lady Just hang loose blood. She gonna handa your rebound on the med side. |
Airplane |
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| If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. |
John Stuart Mill |
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| Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. |
John Stuart Mill |
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| Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. |
John Stuart Mill |
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| The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do. |
John Stuart Mill |
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| Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. |
John Stuart Mill |
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| Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. |
John Stuart Mill |
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| All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. |
John Stuart Mill |
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| That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time. |
John Stuart Mill |
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| That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. |
John Stuart Mill |
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| Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit. |
John Stuart Mill |
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| War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. |
John Stuart Mill |
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| Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes. |
John Stuart Mill |
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| One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. |
John Stuart Mill |
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| The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. |
John Stuart Mill |
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| A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. |
John Stuart Mill |
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| Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. |
Percy Wynham Lewis |
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| The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force. |
Andr Maurois |
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| There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. |
Andr Maurois |
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| The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. |
Andr Maurois |
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| In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. |
Andr Maurois |
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| 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel. |
Andr Maurois |
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| Modesty and unselfishness--these are the virtues which men praise--and pass by. |
Andr Maurois |
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| The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it. |
Andr Maurois |
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| If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. |
Andr Maurois |
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| All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. |
Charlie Chaplin |
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| Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. |
Charlie Chaplin |
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| In the end, everything is a gag. |
Charlie Chaplin |
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| All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. |
Sir Walter Scott |
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| Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive |
Sir Walter Scott |
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| Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love. |
Sir Walter Scott |
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| We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. |
Sir Walter Scott |
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| Look back, and smile on perils past. |
Sir Walter Scott |
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| Oh, the tangled webs we weave When we practice to deceive. |
Sir Walter Scott |
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| And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last. |
Sir Walter Scott |
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| To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. |
Sir Walter Scott |
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| He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit. |
Sir Walter Scott |
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| O many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken |
Sir Walter Scott |
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| What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. |
Albert Pike |
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| Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence. |
Albert Pike |
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| A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind. |
Albert Pike |
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| The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life. |
Albert Pike |
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| It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses How chastening in the hour of pride How consoling in the depths of affliction |
Abraham Lincoln |
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