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When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Anatole France, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Ignorance does not necesarilly mean one has a lack of wisdom, for a most ignorant person can be one with much wisdom. It's "live and learn" that creates wisdom.

Austin Holmes, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Law and Politics

Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

Søren Kierkegaard, in Success and Failure

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Horace, in Work and Recreation

I hate quotations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Timothy Leary, in Men and Women

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht, in Success and Failure

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Sam Brown, (Washington Post, 1977), in Wisdom and Ignorance

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.

Albert Einstein, in Life and Death

Life's tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Benjamin Franklin, in Wisdom and Ignorance

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Christian Nevell Bovee, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Collis P. Huntington, in Altruism and Cynicism

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

Doug Horton, in Love and Hate

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.

George Patton, in War and Peace and Work and Recreation

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

John Burroughs, in Science and Religion

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Work and Recreation

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Doug Horton, in Altruism and Cynicism

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature