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  • What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
        F. Scott Fitzgerald   Best?
  • Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand ­ and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
        Marie Beyon Ray   Best?
  • Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
        Plato   Best?
  • I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
        William Blake   Best?
  • A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
        Aesop   Best?
  • More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and despair, the other to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, a one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
        Mae West   Best?
  • No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Reason should direct and appetite obey.
        Cicero   Best?
  • Non-resolved things generate themselves over and over...
        Vorph   Best?
  • Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
        Stephen Butler Leacock   Best?
  • Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
        Dinah Shore   Best?
  • Avoiding danger is no safer than out right exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
        Helen Keller   Best?
  • The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them-words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more that that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worset, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.
        Stephen King   Best?
  • Cowards die many times before their deaths,
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.
        Florence Shinn   Best?
  • If you aren't just a little bit depressed, then you aren't paying very much attention to what's going on in the world.
        Pete Wentz   Best?
  • Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
        M. Scott Peck   Best?
  • There is more to life than increasing its speed.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  • If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
        Nikola Tesla   Best?
  • If you don't have good storing to tell on your deathbed, what good was living?
        Jennifer Tilly   Best?
  • A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
        Dwight D. Morrow   Best?
  • Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel.
        Northern Exposure   Best?
  • A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
        Antoine de Saint-Exupery   Best?
  • A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it.
        G. K. Chesterton   Best?
  • Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
        Socrates   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?
  • Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
        Anatole France   Best?
  • I'd rather have 30 minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special.
        Julia Roberts   Best?
  • I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
        Terence, Roman Dramatist   Best?
  • There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
        Titus Livius   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?
  • Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
        Henry Beston   Best?
  • I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.
        Jimmy Buffett   Best?
  • History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
        James Joyce   Best?

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