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The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever. ~ Unknown

The greatest pleasure I have known is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. ~ Charles Lamb.

He who is most creative conceals his sources the best. ~ Anonymous

Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us. ~ Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784

Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker. ~ Spanish proverb

As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms that I was formerly. ~ Dr. Samuel Johnson 1709-1784

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes. ~ George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops. ~ George Eliot

The graveyards are full of indispensable men. ~ Charles deGaulle, 1890-1970

To think is to say NO. ~ Emile August Chartier, 1868-1951

When we ask advice we are usually looking for an accomplice. ~ Unknown

If you don't bring Paris with you, you won't find it there. ~ Unknown

Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't. ~ Anonymous

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. ~ Fran Lebowitz

Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet. ~ Frank Hubbard, 1868-1930

It is a golden rule not to judge men by their opinions but rather by what their opinions make of them. ~ George Lichtenbers, 1742-1799

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast. ~ William Penn, 1644-1718

Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them. ~ Suzanne Necker, 1739-1794

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ~ 15 H.L. Menchen, 1880-1956

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~ Eric Hoffer

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. ~ H.L. Mencken

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. ~ Unknown

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~ Edith Wharton, 1862-1937

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ~ Oscar Wilde

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. ~ Henry Thoreau

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. ~ Michael Winner

Moderation is the last refuge for the unimaginative. ~ Oscar Wilde

Reality is the other person's idea of how things should be. ~ Unknown

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. ~ Oscar Wilde

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend. ~ Unknown

How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? ~ Unknown

The best you get is an even break. ~ Franklin P. Adams

It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbreakable to be indebted to a scoundrel. ~ Rochefoucauld

To the man who is afraid everything rustles. ~ Sophocles C.496-406 B.C.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. ~ Ralph Waldo Emergon, 1803-1882

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. ~ Sophocles C496-406B.C.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. ~ Unknown

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquantance and without any visible reason. ~ Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen. ~ Sir Compton Mackenzie, 1883-1972

No human thing is of serious importance. ~ Plato C428-348B.C.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. ~ Edmund Burke, 1729-1797

To others we are not ourselves, but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing. ~ Unknown

Adversity introduces a person to himself or herself. ~ Anonymous

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ~ George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

A cathedral, a wave of a stormy sea, a dancer's leaf, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. ~ Marcel Proust, 1871-1922

When the well's dry, we know the worth of water. ~ Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790

Our years, our debts and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine. ~ Charles Nodier 1780-1844

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. ~ Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. ~ Eric Hoffer

Only dead fish swim with the stream. ~ Anonymous

Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself. ~ Anonymous

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. ~ Robert Browning, 1812-1889

When people do not respect us, we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his heart no man much respects himself. ~ Mark Twain, 1835-1910

With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards. ~ Christian Freidrich Hebbel, 1813-1863

It's always been and always will be the same in the world: The horse does the work and the coachman is tipped. ~ Anonymous

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844-1900

By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece. ~ Migues de Cervantes, 1547-1616

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt. ~ Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784

The dearer a thing is, the cheaper as a general rule we sell it. ~ Samuel Butler 1835-1902

Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them. ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1844-1900

No man does anything from a single motive. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834.

To do great work, a man must be very idle as well as very industrious. ~ Samuel Butler, 1835-1902

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519

If you can't bite, don't show your teeth. ~ Yiddish proverb

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities. ~ Johann Goethe, 1749-1834

Scoundrels are always sociable. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. ~ George Eliot 1819-1880

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ~ Abraham Heschel, 1907-1972

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ~ Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them. ~ Benjamin Jowett, 1817-1893

Be not angy that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~ Thomas A Kempis, 1380-1471

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. ~ Soren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855

A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it. ~ Sir Richard Steele, 1672-1729

No one who deserves confidence ever solciits it. ~ John Collins, 1848-1908

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ~ Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. For a man by nothing is so well betrayed, as by his manners. ~ Edmund Spenser 1552-1599

Man, being responsible, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication ~ Lord Byron 1788-1824

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark. ~ Howard Ruff

Chaos often breeeds life, when order breeds habit. ~ Henry Adams, 1838-1918

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money. ~ Frank Hubbard, 1868-1930

There is no need to show your ability before everyone. ~ Anonymous

I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep. ~ Talleyrand 1754-1838

Living well is the best revenge. ~ George Herbert 1592-1633

Absence is to love what wind is to fire. It extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. ~ Unknown

Well begun is half done. ~ Aristotle 384-322 B.C.

Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. ~ Mark Twain.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. ~ Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965

A diplomat is a man who remembers a woman's birthday, but never remembers her age. ~ Robert Frost, 1874-1963

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. ~ Euripedes, 485-406 B.C.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. ~ George Santanyana, 1863-1952

Once men are caught up in an event they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1900-1944

Definition of an Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. ~ Ambrose Bierce 1842-c. 1914

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do...Build, therefore, your own world. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882

Jesters do oft prove prophets. ~ William Shakespeare, 1564-1616

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down. ~ Anonymous

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882

The deed is everything, the glory nothing, ~ Goethe, 1749-1834

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