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Archives of my Favorite Quotations
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African Proverb: "Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."

The American Naturalist: "A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against it's government."

Auden, W.H. : "Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; but among those whom I love, I can: They make me laugh."

Bacharach, Bert: "A real love letter is ridiculous to everyone except the sender and the recipient."

Burke, Edmund: "Never, no never, did Nature say one thing and wisdom say another."

Burns, George: "The Divine truth is not in a building, nor a book, nor a story. The heart is the temple where all truth resides." (From Oh, God!)

Chinese Proverb: "Life can be as bitter as dragon tears. But whether dragon tears are bitter or sweet depends entirely on how each man perceives the taste."

Chinese Proverb: "Society prepares the crime, the criminal only commits it."

Franklin, Benjamin: "It is the eyes of others that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I would want neither a fine house nor fancy furniture."

Franklin, Benjamin: "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."

French Proverb: "People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting."

Frieberg, John: "You are not a fool just because you have done something foolish - only if the folly of it escapes you."

Goethe: "Give me the benefit of your convictions if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own."

Goethe: "This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us."

Grit: "If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still foolish."

Hunter, Joseph: "My life is in the hands of any fool who can make me lose my temper."

Jackson, Holbrook: "No one is ever old enough to know better."

Jakes, John: "When men know they are considered worthless, that's how they act." (From North and South)

Koontz, Dean: "A Hero is someone who is willing to sacrifice themselves, or even their lives, for what they believe." (From Seize the Night)

Koontz, Dean: "By acknowledging and embracing our weirdness, we are in greater harmony with nature - because nature is deeply weird." (From Seize the Night)

Koontz, Dean: "Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid." (From Seize the Night)

Koontz, Dean: "I'm Human. Foolish is what we ARE." (From Seize the Night)

Landers, Ann: "Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even."

Landers, Ann: One of the best ways to measure people people is to watch the way they behave when something free is offerred."

Maetarlinde, Maurice: "I have never for one imstant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?"

Nietsche: "Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."

Nietsche: "He who has a Why to live can bear almost any How."

Perot, Ross: "The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river."

Russian Proverb: "Do not dig a hole for another, you just might fall in it yourself. (ne roy drugomu yamu, sam v popadesh)

Silent Night, Holy Night: "People go to bed together for more reasons than just love; they do it for security, out of loneliness, and, sometimes, to hide from the horrors of the night."

Smith, Bruce: "If the world were logical, men would have ridden side-saddle instead of women."

Stevens, B.K.: "Being a parent is always hard, if you'redoing it right. If it's easy, you're doing it wrong."

Stevens, B.K.: "Perhaps that is the greatest sin - having the intelligence to recognize evil, but lacking the courage to oppose it."

Swedish Proverb: "Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow."

Tyger, Frank: "Listening to both sides of a story will convince you there is more to a story than both sides."

Walters, Hellmut: "Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little."

Wells, H.G. : "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler: "To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards of us all."

Yasenak, Gene: "Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other."

Yves Saint Laurent: "Fashions fade; Style is eternal. "

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