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  • Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.
        Johnny Depp   Best?
  • I am wealthy in my friends.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
        Les Brown   Best?
  • Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.
        Mary Higgins Clark   Best?
  • Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.
        Mitch Albom   Best?
  • Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
        Buddha   Best?
  • They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • The only real possession you'll ever have is your own character.
        Thomas Wolfe   Best?
  • Ugly is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
        Margaret Cho   Best?
  • Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
        Douglas Adams   Best?
  • Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
        Aesop   Best?
  • Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once.
        Unknown   Best?
  • In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • My friends are my estate.
        Emily Dickinson   Best?
  • It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife.
        Jane Austen   Best?
  • A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.
        Emily Dickinson   Best?
  • Mad, adj: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
        Ambrose Bierce   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?
  • ...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • The first wealth is health.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
        Cicero   Best?
  • I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
        Groucho Marx   Best?
  • Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
        Sextus Propertius   Best?
  • Do not speak quickly; it is a sign of insanity.
        Bias   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?
  • RUM, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.
        Unknown   Best?
  • In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
        John Churton Collins   Best?
  • Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
        Aldous Huxley   Best?
  • I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
        Solomon Short   Best?
  • Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 3
        Soren Kierkegaard   Best?
  • Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.
        Thomas Jefferson   Best?
  • Arrogance is a kingdom without a crown.
        Proverb   Best?
  • A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
        Saul Bellow   Best?
  • Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • The more you suffer, the more you show you really care.
        The Offspring   Best?
  • The only real possession you'll ever have is your character.
        Tom Wolfe   Best?

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