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1. "Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt."

Joseph Addison, "Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories..."

Quotations about: Trust

2. "Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week."

Joseph Addison

3. "Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness."

Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

4. "Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit."

Aldous Huxley, "Eyeless in Gaza"

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol -:- Human

5. "Never try to look into both eyes at the same time.... Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity."

Dorothy Sarnoff

Quotations about: Trust

6. "Idealist: a cynic in the making."

Irving Layton, "Aphs"

7. "For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great."

Jose Ortega y Gasset, "Meditations on Quixote"

8. "Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead."

Aldous Huxley, "Do What You Will"

9. "The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper."

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

10. "God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done."

Anon.

11. "Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator."

George Santayana, "The Life of Reason"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

12. "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."

Carl Sagan

Quotations about: Science and Technology

13. "Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true."

Hubert Humphrey

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity -:- Trust

14. "Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors to the religion of their community; neither of them wrote anything; both of them were executed; and both have become the subject of traditions that are difficult or impossible to harmonize."

Jaroslav Pelikan, "Jesus Through the Centuries"

Quotations about: God and Religion

15. "Every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation, every possession, a duty."

John D. Rockefeller

Quotations about: Justice -:- Law and Crime

16. "All that is not given is lost."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Richness and Money

17. "After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood."

Fred Thompson

18. "Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms."

Alan Corenk

19. "The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."

Benjamin Disraeli

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

20. "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."

Benjamin Franklin

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21. "Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."

Anon.

22. "Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong."

George Carlin

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

23. "If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."

Maya Angelou

24. "It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand. "

André Dubus

Quotations about: Time and Passing -:- Reality and Imagination

25. "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."

Bill Vaughan

26. "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper."

Adelle Davis

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

27. "When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half."

Gracie Allen

28. "Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good."

Alice May Brock

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

29. "Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."

Salvador Dalí

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

30. "What worries you masters you."

Haddon W. Robinson

Quotations about: Question and Problem

31. "Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to."

Paul Ambroise Valéry

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

32. "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Winston Churchill

33. "A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life."

Jean Ingelow

34. "It's a dangerous business going out your front door."

J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring"

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

35. "Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities."

Paul Eldridge, "Maxims for a Modern Man"

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

36. "[...] so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible. "

Norton Juster, "The Phantom Tollbooth"

Quotations about: Question and Problem

37. "Words without actions are the assassins of idealism."

Herbert Hoover

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

38. "The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."

Arthur C. Clarke, "The Lost Worlds of 2001"

Quotations about: Question and Problem

39. "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

Douglas Adams

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination

40. "Some play at chess, some at cards, some at the Stock Exchange. I prefer to play at Cause and Effect."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson"

41. "Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."

Laurence J. Peter

Quotations about: Authority, Government

42. "A mere fact will never stop an Englishman."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: History and Nations

43. "Finding your passion is about connecting the dots between your head and your heart."

Maria Marsala

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

44. "A blind man should not judge of colours."

Scottish proverb

45. "Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them."

Evan Esar

Quotations about: Memory

46. "If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."

Khalil Gibran

Quotations about: Loyalty and Betrayal

47. "One kind word can warm three winter months."

Japanese proverb

Quotations about: Good and Evil

48. "The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy."

Persian proverb

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

49. "Fear less, hope more,
eat less, chew more,
whine less, breathe more,
talk less, say more,
hate less, love more,
and all good things will be yours."

Swedish proverb

50. "Don't open a shop unless you know how to smile."

Jewish proverb

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