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1. "It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog!"

Anon.

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

2. "Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

William Faulkner

Quotations about: Good and Evil

3. "Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it."

Laurence J. Peter

Quotations about: Memory

4. "Guess if you can and choose if you dare."

Pierre Corneille, "Héraclius"

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

5. "Character develops itself in the stream of life."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Human

6. "There's no sauce in the world like hunger."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

7. "Some people are born hammers, others anvils."

proverb

Quotations about: Justice

8. "If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel."

Will Kommen

Quotations about: Youth and Age

9. "All places are distant from heaven alike."

Robert Burton

Quotations about: Happiness

10. "We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

11. "Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."

Arthur Schopenhauer

12. "Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."

Edmund Burke

13. "The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication."

Raymond Chandler

Quotations about: Art and Culture

14. "A woman is a hunter without a forest."

Christina Stead

Quotations about: Woman and Man

15. "It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove."

Owen D. Young

Quotations about: Art and Culture

16. "Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions."

Coco Chanel

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

17. "Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."

Phyllis Diller

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

18. "So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

19. "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."

Ronald E. Osborn

Quotations about: Education

20. "Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides."

Margaret Thatcher

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21. "I want to live in the words I throw away so someone may trip and find me someday."

Ros Gelderman

Quotations about: Memory -:- Oration and Silence

22. "When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels."

Edward Dahlberg

Quotations about: Life and Death

23. "Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise."

John Ralston Saul

24. "Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical."

Yogi Berra

25. "You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself."

Jim Rohn

Quotations about: Human

26. "One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day."

Jean-Paul Sartre

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

27. "Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, "Notes from Underground"

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

28. "Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves."

Rudyard Kipling

29. "Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

30. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead

31. "Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death."

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"

32. "Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character."

Horace

Quotations about: Human

33. "Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve."

Maureen Dowd

Quotations about: Success and Fame

34. "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Sign of Four"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

35. "The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now."

Lech Walesa

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

36. "I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation."

Warren Bennis

37. "One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Life and Death

38. "It's never just a game when you're winning."

George Carlin

39. "A miracle is the violation of mathematical, divine, immutable, eternal laws. By this very statement, a miracle is a contradiction in terms. A law cannot be immutable and violable at the same time."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Philosophical Dictionary"

40. "Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest."

Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

41. "A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal friend?"

Emily Dickinson, from her letter to James D. Clark

42. "The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."

Lewis Thomas

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

43. "We need God, not in order to understand the why, but in order to feel and sustain the ultimate wherefore, to give a meaning to the universe."

Miguel de Unamuno, "The Tragic Sense of Life"

Quotations about: God and Religion

44. "You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."

John Morley

45. "Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence."

Dorothy Dix

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

46. "Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter."

Stephen Carter, "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

47. "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."

Mignon McLaughin, "The Neurotic's Notebook"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

48. "If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters."

Nora Ephron

49. "Each person is a graveyard of his thoughts."

Robert Musil

50. "There are two things necessary to Salvation.... Money and gunpowder."

George Bernard Shaw, "Major Barbara"

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