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tiny.ag/ieyckbys · submitted 1997
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
tiny.ag/z91tc0go · submitted 1997
It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
tiny.ag/6b9j37a4 · submitted 1997
Wise men don't need advice; fools don't take it.
tiny.ag/yqgp7fad · submitted 1997
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.
tiny.ag/tymlwb79 · submitted 1997
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation
tiny.ag/f6aon4ji · submitted 1998
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in Success and Failure
tiny.ag/5gcdbjbx · submitted 1997
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
tiny.ag/iht7l65u · submitted 1997
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
tiny.ag/zhi7upjz · submitted 1997
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
tiny.ag/w4s36qc2 · submitted 1997
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
tiny.ag/la8pw7kl · submitted 1997
We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!
tiny.ag/orx9er1h · submitted 1997
The wind and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
tiny.ag/36xg9wvl · submitted 1997
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
Nicholas Murray Butler, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
tiny.ag/g9nfhw0y · submitted 1997
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
tiny.ag/mjjtqyix · submitted 1997
An excuse is the mark of a moral coward.
tiny.ag/mglnajv0 · submitted 1997
It is impossible to love and be wise.
tiny.ag/lctsfa7d · submitted 1997
Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.
Edouard Herriot, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
tiny.ag/6thfwduq · submitted 1999
Romance is built on illusion, and when we love someone, we love the illusion they have created for us.
Roger Ebert, (from review of Boys Don't Cry, Oct. 22, 1999), in Love and Hate
tiny.ag/frswba1z · submitted 1997
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
tiny.ag/sq9g8eav · submitted 1997
