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"Pray look better, sir," quoth Sancho; "those things yonder are no giants, but windmills." - Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. - Norman Mailer
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth. - Oscar Wilde
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. - Willem De Kooning
There are several protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. - Mark Twain
Better to fight for something than to live for nothing. - George S. Patton
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. - Margaret Thatcher
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words, he understands hard things. - Herman Melville
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. - Barbara Tober
Facts are the enemy of truth. - Miguel de Cervantes
There's no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing. - Alfred Wainwright
Enjoy your worries, you may never have them again. - The Books
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler - and less trouble. - Mark Twain
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde
If God is willing to prevent evil, but is not able to - Epicurus
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. - Rita Mae Brown
The supreme moments of travel are born of beauty and strangeness in equal parts: the first panders to the senses, the second the mind; and it is the rarity of this coincidence which makes the rarity of these moments. - Robert Byron
Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. - John F. Kennedy
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. - Dan Rather
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. - Bertolt Brecht
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Volaire
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. - Paul Harvey
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves. - Albert Guinon
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Soren Kierkegaard
There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. - Edith Wharton
History is after all only a pack of tricks we play on the dead. - Voltaire
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. - Kurt Vonnnegut
Adversity is the first path to truth. - Lord Byron
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually denegrates into a racket. - Eric Hoffer
Mistakes... are the portals of discovery. - James Joyce, Ulysses
All truth passes through three stages. - Arthur Schopenhauer
We see things not as they are but as we are. - Anais Nin
Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires. - Jean de la Fontaine
No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two or more years in a geriatric home. - Kingsley Amis
Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up for work. - Chuck Close
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. - Mark Twain
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. - Ray Bradbury
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - Geeorge Bernard Shaw
I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason infallibly be faulty. - Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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