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Herblock's Law: if it is good, they will stop making it.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
Topic: Arrogance
I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
Topic: Society
Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.
Author: Fritz Reiner
It's great to work with somebody who wants to do things differently.
Topic: Advice
To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.
Topic: Comfort
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. -Maya Angelou.
Topic: Change
Author: Maya Angelou
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
Topic: Crime
If you haven't much education you must use your brain.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . Sabbathless Satan!
Topic: Work
Author: Charles Lamb
A wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
Topic: Experience
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Topic: Decision
I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 2.
Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.
Topic: Denial
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Topic: Universe
Author: Woody Allen
The whole discord of this world consists in discords.
Topic: Contention
Author: Seneca
Why, our battalia trebles that account: Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength, Which they upon the adverse faction want.
Topic: Royalty
Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
Topic: Pain
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Author: Libbie Fudim