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  • Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night.
        Andy Warhol   Best?
  • Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
        Old Chinese Proverb   Best?
  • Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.
        H. L. Mencken   Best?
  • Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
        Unknown   Best?
  • What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
        Susan Sontag   Best?
  • Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse.
        James Cagney   Best?
  • If you don't have good storing to tell on your deathbed, what good was living?
        Jennifer Tilly   Best?
  • ...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the other.
        Raymond Loewy   Best?
  • A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • It's not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the doer of deeds might have done them better. Instead, the credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by sweat and blood and tears.
        Theodore Roosevelt   Best?
  • Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
        Edward Abbey   Best?
  • Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
        Zora Neale Hurston   Best?
  • When writing a novel that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.'
        Neil Gaiman   Best?
  • But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on -- and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.
        Frank Zappa   Best?
  • I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • Be not simply good - be good for something.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.
        Achilles   Best?
  • We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
        François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
  • No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • She was a phantom of delight.
        William Wordsworth   Best?
  • I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
        Terence, Roman Dramatist   Best?
  • The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.
        Ovid   Best?
  • Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot.
        Leone Levi   Best?
  • Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
        Mae West   Best?
  • It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
        Tallulah Bankhead   Best?
  • In spite of everything that has happened, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
        Anne Frank   Best?
  • I have no mercy or compassion for a society that crushes people, and then penalizes them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
        Malcolm X   Best?
  • Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
        Socrates   Best?
  • If you laid all of the lawyers in the world, end to end, on the equator ---- It would be a good idea to just leave them there.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
        Unknown   Best?

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