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Funniest Proverbs and Quotations - 149
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Ezra Pound
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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Publilius Syrus
Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.
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Sir John Lubbock
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
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Edward Harriman
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
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McAlexander
The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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Sir Richard Steele
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
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Kahlil Gibran
As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.
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Irish Proverb
A hair on the head is worth two on the brush.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
When this girl at the museum asked me who I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, 'I like mayonnaise.' She just stared at me, so I said it again, louder. Then she left. I guess she went to try to find some mayonnaise for me.
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Robert
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.
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Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.
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