Famous Quotes

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Life is to be enjoyed and if it is not, 

it makes people ill in one way or another.

  

                     - Louise Bogan

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When the party gets boring

it's time to go home.

                     - Mr. Hollywood

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How can the arts overcome the slow

dying of men's hearts that we call

the progress of the world...?

 

                     - Yeats

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I must create a system myself or be

enslaved by another man's.

 

                     - Blake

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Whatever you can do, or dream you can,

begin it.  Boldness has genius, power

and magic in it.

                     - Goethe

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There are two tragedies in life.  

One is not to get your heart's desire.

The other is to get it.

    

                     - George Bernard Shaw

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The only measure of a man's usefulness

is the extent to which he exercises his

talent, according to the laws of his own

growth, for the common good.

  

                     - Stanley Kunitz

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Private faces in public places are wiser

and nicer than public faces in private places.

    

                     - W. H. Auden

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Sculpture is what you bump into when you 

back up to look at a painting.

 

                     - Ed Reinhart

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No matter how hard you throw a dead fish

into the water, it still won't swim.

    

                     - Marian Stevens

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Whenever a rock falls, it is good to 

go forward and meet it.  That's the 

adventure.

                     - Henry Miller

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It is not down in any map; true places

never are.

                     - Melville

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If one is forever cautious, can one 

remain a human being?

                     - Solzhenitsyn

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Only the wildest animals need cages.

 

                     - Donald Hall

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Horses with free rein will travel

where others have been before.

 

                     - John Steinbeck

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I don't find any correlation between

size and greatness.

                     - Woody Allen

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Hesitate or fumble and you are done for.

Think only of the jump.

 

                     - Virginia Woolf

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Some people strengthen the society

just by being the kind of people

they are.

                     - John Gardner

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If you look like your passport photo,

in all probability you need the 

journey.

                     - Earl Wilson

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A quart cannot become a gallon.

 

                     - Malaysian Proverb

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When one doesn't know how to dance,

he says the ground is wet.

 

                     - Malaysian Proverb

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A knowledge of Sanskrit is of little

use to a man trapped in a sewer.

 

                     - Tom Weller

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The glad man is he who does not

lose his child's heart.

 

                     - K'ung Fu-tse

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What is the use of lighting the lamp

if there is no wick?

 

                     - Malaysian Proverb

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He who requires much from himself and little

from others will be secure from hatred.

                     - K'ung Fu-tse

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An empty bus travels fast.

 

                     - Tom Weller

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A man who knows that he is a fool

is not a great fool.

 

                     - Chuang Tzu

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Falling hurts least those who fly low.

 

                     - Chinese Proverb

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A man with a clear conscience does not

tremble at a midnight knock on his gate.

 

                    - Chinese Proverb

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If a ruby falls in a puddle,

it will not lose it's luster.

 

                     - Malaysian Proverb

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Where there is sugar, there are ants.

 

                     - Malaysian Proverb

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Don't worry about people stealing an idea.

If it's original, you will have to ram it

down their throats.

                      - Howard Aiken

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Because the water is still, you must not

think there is no crocodile there.

 

                      - Malaysian Proverb

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Three helping one another will do

as much as six men singly.

 

                      - Spanish Proverb

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He who is afraid of asking is ashamed

of learning.

                      - Danish Proverb

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The only sin is self-hatred.

 

                      - Paul Williams

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Even a small star shines in the darkness.

 

                      - Danish Proverb

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The absent are always at fault.

 

                      - Spanish Proverb

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Nodding the head does not row the boat.

 

                      - Irish Proverb

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There is no use in your walking five

miles to fish when you can depend on 

being just as unsuccessful near home.

 

                      - Mark Twain

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

 

                      - Yugoslav Proverb

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He who knows does not speak

He who speaks does not know

                      - Lao Tzu

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That which does not kill us

makes us stronger.

                      - Friedrich Nietzche

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I was angry at a friend

I told my wrath; my wrath did end.

I was angry at a foe

I told him not; my wrath did grow.

                      

                      - William Blake

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Religion without science is blind.

Science without religion is lame.

                      - Albert Einstein

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The radical invents the new ideas,

and when he has worn them out

the conservative adopts them

                      - Mark Twain

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Any sufficiently advanced technology would

be indistinguishable from magic.

                      - Arthur C. Clark

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The unreasonable man is the one who expects the world to

adapt to his needs, the reasonable man is the one who adapts

himself to suit the world. Therefore, all progress depends upon

the unreasonable man.

                      - George Bernard Shaw

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I'm not afraid of flying, I'm afraid of crashing.

                      - Neil Simon

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Wait until your father gets home!

                      - Mom