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  • #1
    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #2
    Samuel Johnson
    “To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.”
    Samuel Johnson

  • #3
    Charles de Gaulle
    “Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.”
    Charles de Gaulle

  • #5
    “Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.”
    David Lloyd George
    tags: goal, step, try

  • #6
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
    Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

  • #9
    Finley Peter Dunne
    “The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.”
    Finley Peter Dunne

  • #10
    Abraham Lincoln
    “Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #11
    Benjamin Franklin
    “He that can have patience can have what he will.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #12
    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    John A. Shedd

  • #13
    Ambrose Bierce
    “Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.”
    Ambrose Bierce

  • #14
    Ingrid Bergman
    “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
    Ingrid Bergman

  • #15
    Will Rogers
    “Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
    Will Rogers

  • #16
    Henry James
    “I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.”
    Henry James

  • #17
    Josh Billings
    “The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.”
    Josh Billings

  • #18
    George Bernard Shaw
    “The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.”
    George Bernard Shaw, The Quintessence of Ibsenism

  • #19
    “The chatterer reveals every corner of his shallow mind.”
    Mike Bell

  • #20
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
    John F. Kennedy

  • #21
    Billy Graham
    “When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”
    Billy Graham

  • #22
    H.L. Mencken
    “Self-respect--the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.”
    H.L. Mencken

  • #23
    James Russell Lowell
    “A sneer is the weapon of the weak.”
    James Russell Lowell

  • #24
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #26
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • #27
    Edmund Burke
    “Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.”
    Edmund Burke

  • #28
    William Hazlitt
    “If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.”
    William Hazlitt

  • #29
    H.L. Mencken
    “The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
    H.L. Mencken

  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #31
    Jonathan Swift
    “I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.”
    Jonathan Swift



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