Quotes
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| "When an old man dies, a library burns down." | African proverb | |
| "Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought." | Henri Bergson (1859-1941) | |
| "If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either being made." | Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) | |
| "Do your duty and a little more, and the future will take care of itself." | Andrew Carnegie (1837-1919) | |
| "Loving is not just looking at each other; it's looking in the same direction." | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) | |
| "It is better to be the hammer than the anvil." | Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) | |
| "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1802-1882) | |
| "Show me a hero, and I will write you a tragedy." | F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) | |
| "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." | Henry Ford (1863-1947) | |
| "The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." | Anne Frank (1929-1945) | |
| "Home is a place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." | Robert Frost (1874-1963) | |
| "Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue." | Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) | |
| "Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil." | J. Paul Getty (1892-1976) | |
| "Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly." | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) | |
| "To escape criticism -- do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) | |
| "I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office." | Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) | |
| "There are no lifeguards on the beach of love." | Ronald Alan Karpinski (1947- ) | |
| "Trust me, . . . five hundred men can take your place or mine." | Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) | |
| "Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence." | Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970) | |
| "Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much." | Walter Lippman (1889-1974) | |
| "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." | William Gibbs McAdoo (1863-1941) | |
| "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle." | Michelangelo (1475-1564) | |
| "Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries." | James Michener (1907-1997) | |
| "Ability is of little use without opportunity." | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) | |
| "At age fifty, every man has the face he deserves." | George Orwell (1903-1950) | |
| "A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when crossing a one-way street." | Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990) | |
| "Nothing you can't spell will ever work." | Will Rogers (1879-1935) | |
| "Be sincere; be brief; be seated." | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) | |
| "Misfortune is an occasion to demonstrate character." | Seneca (B.C. 4 - 65 A.D.) | |
| "Brevity is the soul of wit." | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) | |
| "That man is wisest who realizes that his wisdom is worthless." | Socrates (B.C. 469-399) | |
| "Your friend will argue with you." | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) | |
| "All love has something of blindness in it, but the love of money especially." | Robert South (1634-1716) | |
| "Our life is frittered away by detail . . . simplify, simplify." | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) | |
| "All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost." | J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) | |
| "The only thing new in this world is the history you don't know." | Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) | |
| "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." | Mark Twain (1835-1910) | |
| "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers." | Francois de Voltaire (1694-1778) | |
| "Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much." | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) | |
| "In dreams begins responsibility." | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) | |
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