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"Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof." - J.R. Lowell

"No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar." - Abraham Lincoln

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." - William Shakespeare

"Familiarity breeds attempt." - Goodman Ace

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." - Abraham Lincoln

"The cruellest lies are often told in silence." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"Familiarity breeds contempt, and children." - Mark Twain

"Please don't suck my brain out through my spine!" - Oxnard Montalvo

"Fashions are induced epidemics." - George Bernard Shaw

"Living in New York City is never having to say you're sorry." - Lily Tomlin

"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." - Alexander Pope

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be." - Shakespeare

"Familiarity breeds contempt." - Aesop

"Health nuts are going to feel stupid one day, lying in a hospital, dying of nothing." - Redd Foxx

"When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands." - H. L. Mencken

"I never forget a face, but I'll make an exception in your case." - Groucho Marx

"Sex is nobody's business except the three people involved." - Anonymous

"After we made love, he took a piece of chalk and made an outline of my body." - Joan Rivers

"The graveyards are full of indispensable men." - Charles de Gaulle

"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten- percent a bad name." - Henry Kissinger

"Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot." - Leo Durocher

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire

"Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock." - Will Rogers

"Getting up before daybreak makes for health, wealth, and wisdom." - Aristotles

"Reason unites us, not just with our contemporaries, but with people who lived before us and with those who will live after us." - Leo Tolstoy

"God helps those who help themselves." - Aesop

"To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it." - Publilius Syrus

"Woman was God's second mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad." - Ecclesiastes 7:7a

"The principal function of lawyers is to protect people from other members of their profession." - Anonymous

"Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability." - George Bernard Shaw

"It is neither wealth nor splendour, but tranquillity and occupation, that give happiness." - Thomas Jefferson

"In the end, everything is a gag." - Charlie Chaplin

"I've been in more laps than a napkin." - Mae West

"Be careful of reading health books. You might die of a misprint." - Mark Twain

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." - Jonathan Swift

"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose that you were a member of Congress...But I repeat myself." - Mark Twain

"If it weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all." - Rodney Dangerfield

"I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's." - Woody Allen

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." - Napoleon

"If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." - Matthew 15:14

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Lao-tse

"The whole worth of a kind deed lies in the love that inspires it." - The Talmud

"There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it." - Cicero

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you." - C.G. Jung

"When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic." - Lily Tomlin

"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." - Anonymous

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." - Winston Churchill

"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me." - Benjamin Disraeli

"In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane." - Anonymous

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just." - Thomas Jefferson

"A closed mouth gathers no feet." - Anonymous

"There are no facts, only interpretations." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I haven't ever tried." - Mae West

"It takes two to make peace." - John F. Kennedy

"Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising." - Mark Twain

"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one." - Benjamin Franklin

"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell; it is simply purgatory." - Abraham Lincoln

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something." - Plato

"Brevity is the soul of lingerie." - Dorothy Parker

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. No use being a damn fool about it." - W.C. Fields

"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen

"The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps; we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue." - Mao Zedong

"Lawyers, I suppose, were children once." - Charles Lamb

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain

"What luck for rulers that men do not think." - Adolf Hitler

"We learn from history that we do not learn from history." - Georg Hegel

"Guns don't kill people--I do." - Anonymous

"The better part of valour is discretion." - Shakespeare

"We must hang together or we assuredly shall hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin

"A man can not be too careful in the choice of his enemies." - Oscar Wilde

"I'm an asshole." - Snake D Plissken

"Anything is possible if it happens." - Oxnard Montalvo

"In this life you can be either oh so smart, or oh so pleasant. I recommend pleasant." - Elwood P. Dowd

"Excuse me, Johova..." - Exodus 4:10

"My life, compared to a large steaming pile of canine deification, is quite distasteful" - Snakeslammer

"Would I lie to anyone but you?" - Todd Macian

"Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins." - American Indian Saying

"The man who can smile when things go wrong has just thought of someone to blame it on." - Rossiter

"Patience: the companion of wisdom." - St. Augustine

"Life's a bitch, then you marry one, and then you die." - Ian 'Tocka' Wilson

"Always borrow money from a pessimist--he'll never expect to be repaid." - Anonymous

"Welcome to the human race." - Snake D. Plissken

"Never put off tomorrow what you can do the day after." - Oscar Wilde

"He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone." - John 8:2

"When you're up to your nose, keep your mouth shut." - Rossiter

"Cleverness is not wisdom." - Euripides

"Wisdom is basically a form of common sense." - Snakeslammer

"Wisdom is the power to put our time and knowledge to the proper use." - Thomas J. Watson

"The name's Bond, James Bond." - James Bond

"My mind is made up. Don't confuse me with facts!" - Rossiter

"I'm an elk! I have antlers!" - Heffer Wolf

"And the lights went out all over the world." - Jamie 'Tugs' Ross

"No" - Robert 'Hef...Pudgemo' Heffer

"Nadine, Nadine, Nadine..." - Kris McCanna

"It's like..." - Trevor Murray

"C'est la vie......It's French for 'shit happens'." - Snakeslammer

"Which is worse-ignorance or apathy?" "I don't know and I don't care" - Anonymous

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve it through not dying" - Woody Allen

"Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you never will." - Isaac Hayes

"Desperate times call for desperate...er...desperateness." - Daggett Beaver

"Showing up is 80% of success." - Jimmy Hendrix

"Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetites." - Thomas Fuller

"After all is said and done, more is said than done." - Neil Finn

"Macho doesn't prove much-o." - George Michael

"If I don't work, does that mean I'm Broken?" - Anonymous

"The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded." - Abraham Lincoln

"Summer is the mother of the poor." - Italian Proverb

"There's no social differences - till women come in." - H.G. Wells

"The weaker sex is the stronger sex because of the weakness of the stronger sex for the weaker sex." - W.G.P.

"He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like." - English Proverb

"Amusement is the happiness of those that cannot think." - Alexander Pope

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - Albert Einstein

"I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth." - Nick Cave

"Whatever a bird is, is perfect in the bird." - Judith Wright

"One way you can often do more for your child is to do less." - Frank Clark

"Today is yesterday's pupil." - Thomas Fuller

"Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem." - Eric Hoffer

"Not to transmit a skill is to betray it" - Elie Wiesel

"The more horse sense a fellow has the less he bets on 'em." - Kin Hubbard

"Some men keep their word because no one else will take it." - W.G.P.

"Everyone lives by selling something." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"All I know I learned after I was thirty." - Georges Clemenceau

"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or the life of another." - Helen Keller

"When you see successful business, someone made a courageous decision." - Peter Drucker

"I am convinced that there are no troops in the world to equal the Australians in cool daring, courage and endurance." - Sir John Monash

"The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them." - Samuel Butler

"There are few feelings to match those of a person who wants to work and is not able to." - P.K. Shaw

"When you cease to dream, you cease to live." - Malcolm S. Forbes

"Loneliness is never more cruel when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate." - Germain Greer

"No matter what the level of ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime." - James T. McKay

"Some teenagers could, perhaps, be more aptly called parent-agers." - W.G.P.

"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either." - Leo Burnett

"Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?" - Anonymous

"Science is what you know; philosophy is what you don't know." - Bertrand Russell

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self." - Aldus Huxley

"Don't get out of your depth in conversation - few people will be willing to save you." - P.K. Shaw

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." - George Orwell

"Luck is being ready for the chance." - J. Frank Dobie

"The blooming expense upsets many a budding romance." - W.G.P.

"I do the best I know how- the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing it until the end." - Abraham Lincoln

"Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit." - G.K. Chesterton

"My downfall raises me to infinite heights." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed." - Lloyd Jones

"It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone." - Oscar Wilde

"Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office." - Aesop

"With the Marriage Market, compared with the Stock Market, there's a certainty that the longer a woman holds onto her shares, the less they will be worth." - P.K. Shaw

"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." - Samuel Johnson

"A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival." - Edmund Burke

"Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." - Proverbs 12:4

"The wanting to win is much more important than winning." - W.G.P.

"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier." - George Bernard Shaw

"Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence." - Samuel Butler

"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf." - Bob Hope

"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of persuing his education." - John W. Gardener

"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular." - Oscar Wilde

"What may be done at any time will be done at no time." - Scottish Proverb

"It's sweet to be remembered, but it's often cheaper to be forgotten." - Kin Hubbard

"All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling." - Blais Pascal

"Christmas and New Year are the fastest two weeks of the year." - Verka Paunovska-Trajceska

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself." - Albert Camus

"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"A tax loophole is something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is a tax reform." - Russell B. Long

"All things flow, nothing abides." - Heraclitus

"Knowledge puts a limit on the mind" - Anonymous

"I was attacked from the rear and behind!" - Snakeslammer

"The more I know, the more I know I don't know." - Anonymous

"Tzxaahiimiiilyhobogj..." - Jamie Ross & Snakeslammer

"Jodie, Jodie, Jodie..." - Kris McCanna

"Trying is the first step to failure." - Homer J. Simpson

"...As guilty as a sasquach in a pudding factory." - Daggett Beaver

"Success sometimes demands a certain refined insanity." - Obernewtyn Chronicles

"Hey! Don't drink that poison! It's four dollars an ounce!" - Groucho Marx

"Another moment and it would have been...later." - Oxnard Montalvo

"I'm not small; I'm just in the distance!!" - Karl 'Gigolo' Beattie

"Your site sucks, 'cause it doesn't have any quotes from me!" - Jay T. Wilson

"We wouldn't know we were dead until we died..." - E.B.

"Song writing is a mystery. And it's a mystery to me that it's a mystery. But that sounds stupid." - Neil Finn

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself." - Albert Camus

"Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen." - Marge Piercy

"Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom." - Scottish proverb

"I don't want to be a passenger in my own life." - Diane Ackerman

"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." - William Blake

". . . no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle." - Dorothy Thompson

"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work." - Mark Twain

"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." - Gail Sheehy

"To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." - Elbert Hubbard

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things." - Winston Churchill

"Never answer a critic, unless he's right." - Bernard Baruch

"Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down." - Olive Schreiner

"Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy." - Henry Link

"I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act." - Abraham Maslow

"Today is the blocks with which we build." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Don't waste today regretting yesterday instead of making a memory for tomorrow." - Laura Palmer

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself." - Doris Lessing

"The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes." - Napoleon

"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them." - Warren Bennis

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time." - Anna Freud

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance." - Bruce Barton

"Dare to be naive." - R. Buckminster Fuller

"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently." - Agnes de Mille

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes." - Washington Irving

"You don't just luck into things . . . You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities." - Barbara Bush

"Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it." - Anon.

"Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny." - Don Sutton

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton

"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible." - Saint Francis of Assisi

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." - Moliere

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small steps." - Henry Ford

"Little drops of water, little grains of sand...Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land." - Julia Carney

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent van Gogh

"No one from the beginning of time has had security." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things." - William J. Locke

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." - Bishop W. C. Magee

"I made a mistake today. I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative." - Jerry Rubin

"Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence." - Lisa M. Amos

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

"A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain." - Mildred W. Struven

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." - Carl Rogers

"I'll not listen to reason. Reason is always what someone else has got to say." - Elizabeth C. Gaskell

"The deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated." - William James

"He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time." - Duc de la Rochefoucald

"Man lives by praise; most of us would rather be hurt by flattery than helped by criticism." - Laurence J. Peter

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." - Katherine Mansfield

"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. " - Sophia Loren

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that fits all cases." - C. G. Jung

"To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect." - Robert M. Hutchins

"A problem well stated is a problem half solved." - Charles Kettering

"A good problem statement often includes: a. what is known; b. what is unknown; and c. what is sought." - Anon.

"You've got to take the initiative and play your game…Confidence makes the difference." - Chris Evert

"Necessity is the mother of taking chances." - Mark Twain

"The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters." - Gloria Steinem

"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper." - Edmund Burke

" Change means movement, movement means friction, friction means heat, and heat means controversy." - Saul Alinsky

"We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't." - Frank A. Clark

"If it's very painful to you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it - that's the time to hold your tongue." - Alice Duer Miller

"A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness." - Fontenelle

"If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth." - Robert N. Coons

"Enjoy yourself. These are the 'good old days' you're going to miss in the years ahead." - Anon.

"Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead." - Lily Langtry

"Time is not a line, but a series of now-points." - Taisen Deshimaru

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness." - Seneca

"If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for." - Florence Shinn

"Life is the sum of all your choices." - Albert Camus

"Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it." - Richard Bach

"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent." - Sydeny Smith

"Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own." - Jacqueline Briskin

"One can never consent to creep when one has the impulse to soar." - Helen Keller

"Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous." - William Matthews

"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job." - George Crane

"...It might get ugly out there. And when I think of ugly, I think of you." - Norbert Beaver

"Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working on the engines." - Gary Sinise

"Always take a job that is too big for you." - Harry Emerson Fosdick

"If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet." - Isaac Bashevis Singer

"On the human chessboard, all moves are possible." - Miriam Schiff

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." - Diane Ackerman

"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." - John A. Simone Jr.

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James

"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." - Michel de Montaigne

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." - Robert G. Ingersoll

"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction." - Rita Mae Brown

"Things don't turn up in this world unless someone turns them up." - James A. Garfield

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt

"The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being." - Thomas Carlyle

"There is no failure except in no longer trying." - Elbert Hubbard

"The impossible is often the untried." - Jim Goodwin

"I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect." - Edward Gibbon

"There is no point at which you can say, `Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'" - Carrie Fisher

"If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it." - Kathleen Norris

"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success." - Irving Berlin

"What a man can imagine he may one day achieve." - Nancy Hale

"It is never right to compromise with dishonesty." - Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

"The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones." - Solomon Ibn Gabirol

"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning." - John Henry Cardinal Newman

"Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes; work never begun." - Christina Rossetti

"Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind." - Bulgarian proverb

"You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose." - Benjamin Lipson

"He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin." - Horace

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." - Beverly Sills

"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf." - Bob Hope

"If you see a tennis player who looks as if he's working very hard, then that means he isn't very good." - Helen Wills Moody

"If all the year were playing holidays...To sport would be astedious as to work." - William Shakespeare

"Nothing is interesting if you're not interested." - Helen MacInness

"Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth." - Ed Howe

"Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it, and they can't ever take that away from you." - Mae West

"There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity." - General Douglas MacArthur

"The way to be safe is never to be secure." - Benjamin Franklin

"If you are afraid of your future, you don't have a present." - James Petersen

"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding." - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"Competition can damage self-esteem, create anxiety, and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love." - Mariah Burton Nelson

"Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information." - Heinz R. Pagels

"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up." - James Magary

"The computer is a moron." - Peter Drucker

"Everybody knows that if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." - Gertrude Stein

"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end

up somewhere else."

--Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull

"Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person."

--Ethel Watts Mumford

Aim higher than your reach:

"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves--to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today." - Stewart B. Johnson

"Hitch your wagon to a star." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." - Arnold Glasgow

"Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have – so spend it wisely." - Kay Lyons

"You don't get to chose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live." - Joan Baez

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake." - Henry David Thoreau

"With every rising of the sun, think of your life as just begun." - Anon.

"Every new day begins with possibilities." - Ronald Reagan

"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else." - Dolly Parton

"We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness." - Maxwell Maltz

"No one is more likely to make a mistake than the man who acts only on reflection." - Luc de Clapiers, Marquis Vauvenargues

"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level." - Dr. Joyce Brothers

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something." - Anon.

"You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault." - Thomas Fuller

"I am responsible for my own well-being, my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make regarding my life directly influences the quality of my days." - Kathleen Andrus

"Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right." - Mario Cuomo

"Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit." - German proverb

"Time deals gently only with those who take it gently." - Anatole France

"Who longest waits most surely wins." - Helen Hunt Jackson

"Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again." - Goethe

"Strong people don't need strong leaders." - Ella Baker

"Parents can only give advice or put [children] on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." - Anne Frank

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - James B. Conant

"Fortune favors the audacious." - Erasmus

"You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine." - Flip Wilson

"Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt." - Barbara Walters

"The thing we fear we bring to pass." - Elbert Hubbard

"God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless." - Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

"All the while thou studiest revenge, thou art tearing thine own wound open." - Thomas Fuller

"Living well is the best revenge." - George Herbert

"To refrain from imitation is the best revenge." - Marcus Aurelius

"Hey you spootie zombie guys! Come back here with my teddy!" - Daggett Beaver

"BIND ME, PLEASE. And bring cookies!" - Anon (via FOUND magazine.com

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