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Funny Famous Sayings - 21
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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Charles Lamb
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
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Socrates
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
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Author Unknown
It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
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Danish proverb
The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage.
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Unknown, The Bhagavad Gita
For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness?
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Pablo Picasso
Accidents, try to change them-it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Confucius, The Confucian Analects
What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy.
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Izaak Walton
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
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