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1. “A friend is one who warns you.” - Near East proverb
2. “A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us
the truth about its author.” - G. K. Chesterton
3. “A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites
you to stand beside him and see for yourself.” - Reverend R. Inman
4. “A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.” - Frank Capra
5. “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” - Mark Twain
6. “A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man
becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.” - Gustave Flaubert
7. “A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise
would heal and do well.” - Francis Bacon
8. “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
- Joseph Stalin
9. “A Truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent”
- William Blake, English poet, artist (1757-1827)
10. “All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the
difference.” - Voltaire
11. “All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to
criticism.” - unknown
12. “Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
- Mark Twain
13. “An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.”
- Paul Valory
14. “An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be
made in his subject and how to avoid them.” - Werner Heisenberg
15. “Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”
- C. C. Colton
16. “Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth.” - Pablo Picasso
17. “As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal:
keep you eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole!”
- Quote from Dr. Murray Banks
18. “Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so.”
- John Stewart Mill

19. “Be careful of your thoughts; they may become words at any moment.”
- Iara Gassen
20. “Be happy. It is a way of being wise.” - Colette
21. “Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll need them on your way
down.” - Wilson Mizner
22. “Between two evils, I always like to take the one I’ve never tried
before.” - Mae West
23. “Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.”
- Benjamin Franklin
24. “Beware of the man who won’t be bothered with details.”
- William Feather, Sr.
25. “Beyond each corner new directions lie in wait.” - Stanislaw Lec
26. “Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless
substitute for life.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
27. “Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.” - Ambrose Bierce

28. “Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.”
- Marva Collins
29. “Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum:
I think that I think, therefore I think that I am” - Ambrose Bierce
30. “Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.” - Peter Ustinov
31. “Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is Genius.” - George Bernard Shaw
32. “Common-looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the lord makes so many of them.” - Abraham Lincoln
33. “Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof; it is a temporary
expedient.” - James Russel Lowell, American editor (1819-1891)
34. “Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”
- H. L. Mencken
35. “Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad
training.” - Anna Freud

36. “Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves,
the other sweetens it.” - Bovee
37. “Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small
jumps.” - David Lloyd George.
38. “Don’t be so humble. You’re not that great.” - Golda Meir

39. “Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to
govern, but impossible to enslave.”
- Henry Peter Brougham, Scottish statesman and historian (1778-1868)
40. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit
there.” - Will Rogers
41. “Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful
impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson
42. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only
thing.” - Albert Schweitzer
43. “Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first,
and the lesson afterward.” - Anonymous

44. “For my part, the longer I live the less I feel the need of any sort of
theological belief, and the more I am content to let unseen powers go on
their way with me and mine without question or distrust.”
- John Burroughs, American essayist (1837-1921)

45. “Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.” - Jane Hopkins
46. “Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.”
- Thomas Alva Edison
47. “God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own
backs nor kick ourselves too easily.” - unknown
48. “Good judgement comes from experience; and experience, well, that comes
from bad judgement.” - Anonymous
49. “Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” - Henry David Thoreau
50. “Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his
moccasins for two weeks.” - Sioux Indian Prayer

51. “Half a man’s life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the
original had some quality which is lost in the process.”
- E. B. White, American author (1899-1985)
52. “Harmony seldom makes a headline.”
- Silas Bent, American writer (1882-1945)
53. “He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.”
- Mary Howitt
54. “He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.” - Confucius
55. “He who hurries cannot walk with dignity.” - fortune cookie
56. “Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can
never learn anything from history.” - George Bernard Shaw
57. “Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on
people.” - W.C. Fields
58. “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and
catastrophe.” - H. G. Wells

59. “I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle
gained.” - the Duke of Wellington
60. “I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.” - Jules Renard
61. “I believe that every right implies a responsibility;
every opportunity, an obligation;
every possession, a duty.” - John D. Rockefeller
62. “I don’t have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem”
- Ashleigh Brilliant
63. “I have made mistakes, but have never made the mistake of claiming I never
made one.” - James G. Bennet
64. “I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the
death, your right to say it.”
- Voltaire, French writer and philospher (1694-1778)
65. “I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
- Anatole France
66. “I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.”
- Oscar Wilde
67. “I’m always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.” - Diane Sawyer
68. “I’ve never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a
good person who worried much about his soul.” - Haldane
69. “If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.”
- Dorothy Law Nolte.
70. “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the
shoulders of giants.” - Sir Isaac Newton
71. “If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who
considered his work important.” - Bertrand Russell
72. “If the aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would
presumably flunk it.” - Stanley Garn
73. “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite
you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man.”
- Mark Twain
74. “If you want a place in the sun, you’ve got to expect a few blisters.”
- Dear Abby
75. “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”
- President Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
76. “Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.”
- Joseph Conrad, Polish-born author (1857-1924)
77. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” - Albert Einstein
78. “In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary, ‘patriotism’ is defined as the last
resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but
inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.”
- Ambrose Bierce, American writer
79. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
80. “Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold
weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.”
- Leonardo Da Vinci
81. “It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.”
- Alfred Adler, Father of individual psychology (1870-1937)
82. “It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so
ingenious” - anonymous
83. “It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that
gives happiness.” - Thomas Jefferson
84. “It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.”
- Pierre Caron de Beaumarchais, French author-dramatist (1732-1799)
85. “It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are
accountable.” - Moliere
86. “It is odd, is it not, that a person’s worth to society by is measured by
their wealth, when instead their wealth should be measured by their worth
to society.” - A. Cygni
87. “It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling
exception, is composed of others.” - John Andrew Holmes
88. “It’s not the things we don’t know that get us into trouble; it’s the
things we do know that aint so.” - Will Rogers
89. “It’s not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before
the game even starts.” - Addison Walker

90. “Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.” - Anonymous
91. “Let us so endeavor to live, that when we come to die, even the undertaker
will be sorry.” - Mark Twain.
92. “Love cures people; both the ones who give it, and the ones who receive
it.” - Dr. Karl Menninger
93. “Love your neighbors, but don’t pull down the fence.” - Chinese proverb.

94. “Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.” - Albert Einstein
95. “Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called
upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.”
- Oscar Wilde, British playwright, poet, and novelist (1854-1900)
96. “Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he
will pick himself up and continue on.”
- Winston Churchill, British statesman and writer (1874-1965)
97. “Miracles happen to those who beleive in them. Otherwise why does not
the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never
heard of her.” - Bernard Berenson, American art authority (1865-1959)
98. “Money is like an arm or leg: use it or lose it.” - Henry Ford
99. “Money may be the
husk of many things, but not the kernel.
It buys you food, but not appetite;
medicine, but not health;
acquaintances, but not friends;
servants, but not loyalty;
days of joy, but not peace or happiness.” - Henrik Ibsen
100. “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable
superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are
able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.” - Albert Einstein

101. “Never could any increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to
be bought at the price of liberty.” - Hilaire Belloc
102. “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will
suprise you with their ingenuity.” - General George S Patton, Jr.
103. “No, ’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door;
but ’tis enough, ’twill serve….”
- Mercutio, Romeo & Juliet, Act III, scene I, William Shakespeare
104. “No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.”
- W. Somerset Maugham
105. “No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion,
without controversy.” - Lyman Beecher, American clergyman (1775-1863)
106. “No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.”
- Thomas Mann, German author (1875-1955)
107. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
108. “Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else
is up in the air.” - Earl Wilson
109. “Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how
to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.” - Pericles
110. “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
111. “Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self;
for what we wish, that we readily believe.”
- Demosthenes, Athenian orator and statesman (385?-322 B.C.)

112. “Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything
worth a second reading.” - Horace
113. “Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners.”
- William Shakespeare
114. “Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of
darkness.” - Vladimir Nabokov
115. “Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided
missiles and misguided men.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

116. “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding”
- Albert Einstein
117. “Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.” - Anonymous
118. “People who never get carried away should be.”
- Malcolm S. Forbes, American publisher.
119. “Perfection, then, is finally achieved, not when there is nothing left to
add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
- Antoine de St. Exupéry
120. “Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between
the disastrous and the unpalatable.” - John Kenneth Galbraith
121. “Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue. It is hard for an
empty bag to stand upright.” - Benjamin Franklin
122. “Prejudice is the reason of fools.” - Voltaire
123. “Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all,
and bad men are made no better by them” - Demonax (c 150 A.D.)
124. “Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.”
- W. R. Alger

125. “Rainbows apologize for angry skies.” - Sylvia A. Viorol
126. “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” - Confucius
127. “Really, we create nothing. We merely plagiarize nature.”
- Jean Baitaillon
128. “Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.”
- Anonymous
129. “Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what
nobody else has thought.” - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
130. “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees
on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the
clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time”
- Sir J. Lubbock

131. “Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more
deadly in the long run.” - Mark Twain
132. “Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a
yellow spot into the sun.” - Pablo Picasso
133. “Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they
are.” - John W. Gardner

134. “Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop
thinking and go in.” - Andrew Jackson.
135. “Tell the truth and run.” - Yugoslav proverb
136. “The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty steps in advance;
but if he is a thousand steps in front of them, they do not see and do
not follow him, and any literary freebooter who chooses may shoot him
with impunity.” - Georg Brandes, Danish literary criticl
137. “The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered by their
proverbs.” - Francis Bacon
138. “The great artist is the simplifier.”
- Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss poet, philosopher (1821-1881)
139. “The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast
it.” - William James
140. “The greatness of a man can nearly always be measured by his willingness
to be kind.” - G. Young
141. “The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.”
- John Burroughs, American essayist (1837-1921)
142. “The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the
opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
- Niels Bohr
143. “The pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy.”
- D. H. Laurence
144. “The smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.”
- Aldous Huxley
145. “The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot,
his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at
anything by his art.” - George Bernard Shaw
146. “The unnatural, that too is natural.” - Gothe
147. “The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world
of nuclear giants and ethical infants.”
- Omar N. Bradley, American general (1893-1981)
148. “The world stands aside to let anyone pass who know where he is going.”
- David Starr Jordan
149. “There are two ways to slide easily through life:
to believe everything or to doubt everything;
both ways save us from thinking.” - Alfred Korzybski
150. “There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.”
- Booker T. Washington
151. “There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we
don’t know.” - Ambrose Bierce
152. “They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to
change them yourself.” - Andy Warhol, American pop artist (1928-1987)
153. “This world is comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.”
- Horace Walpole
154. “Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant or an enemy,
must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.”
- Aesop, Greek fabulist (620-560 B.C.)
155. “Three things are necessary for the salvation of man :
to know what he ought to believe;
to know what he ought to desire;
and to know what he ought to do.”
- Thomas Aquinas, Italian theolgian (1255-1274)
156. “Time is what we want most, but alas, what we use worst.” - William Penn
157. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of
value.” - Albert Einstein.

158. “Up is, by definition, the direction which broadens horizons.” - A. Cygni
159. “Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.
That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die;
and do not outlive yourself.” - George Bernard Shaw

160. “Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.” - Francis Bacon

161. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
- Oscar Wilde
162. “We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.” - John W. Gardner
163. “We didn’t inherit the land from our fathers. We are borrowing it from
our children.” - Amish belief
164. “We forgive once we give up attachment to our wounds.” - Lewis Hyde
165. “We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the
Mount.” - Omar N. Bradley, American general (1893-1981)
166. “We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it that to
consume wealth without producing it.” - George Bernard Shaw.
167. “What governs men is fear of truth.”
- Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss poet, philosopher (1821-1881)
168. “When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.”
- George Bernard Shaw
169. “When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.”
- Thomas Jefferson
170. “When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” - Anonymous
171. “When you return to your boyhood town, you find it wasn’t the town you
longed for. It was your boyhood.” - Earl Wilson
172. “Why is it that we rejoice at a wedding and cry at a funeral ? It is
because we are not the person involved.” - Mark Twain
173. “Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.”
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
174. “Work to become, not to acquire.” - Confucius

175. “You can observe a lot just by watchin’.” - Yogi Berra
176. “You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him
mad.” - Adali Stevenson

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