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"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."- Miguel de Cervantes

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"Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth"
- Albert Einstein

"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
- Henri-Frederic Amiel

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
- Chinese proverb

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer."
- Sir William Blackstone

"The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category."
 -Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

"It is impossible to love and to be wise."
-Francis Bacon

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
- Confucius

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
- Confucius

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow."
- James Dean

"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."
- Epictetus

"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other."
- Oscar Ameringer

"Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last."
- Marcus Aurelius

"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."
- Orlando A. Battista

"When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us."
- Alexander Graham Bell

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."
- Ingrid Bergman

"Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours."
- M. Berle

"To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making."
- Otto von Bismarck

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field."
- Niels Bohr

"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less."
- Nicholas Murray Butler

"The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James B. Cabell

"Veni, vidi, vici." [He came, he saw, he conquered.]
- Gaius Julius Caesar

"Faber est suae quisque fortunae." [Each man is the smith of his own fortune.]
- Appius Claudius Caecus

"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies."
- Arthur Calwell

"An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought."
- Simon Cameron

"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
- Chinese Proverb

"You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair."
- Chinese Proverb

"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
- Agatha Christie

"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others."
- Winston Churchill

" [As you sow, so shall you reap.]"
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

" [To err is human, to forgive divine.]"
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"An unjust peace is better than a just war."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself"
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"When you have nothing to say, say nothing."
- Charles Caleb Colton

" [I think, therefore I am]"
- Rene Descartes

"We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up."
-Phyllis Diller

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity."
- Albert Einstein

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
- Albert Einstein

"Two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
- Albert Einstein

"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner."
- English proverb

"The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty."
- Alain, Definitions, 1953

. Life is a mystery to live, Not a problem to solve.Unknown

Cowards die many times before their death. The valiant never taste of death.
     Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)

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