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Determine to live life with flair and laughter.
Maya Angelou


History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou


How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Maya Angelou


I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou


I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.
Maya Angelou


If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
Maya Angelou

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What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever.
Ethel Percy Andrus


When you do a good job, you'll feel like people are bothering you. If you have a product that's interesting enough, then people will come to you.
Joanna Angel, Building Buzz for Your Web Project, SXSW 2006


Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Maya Angelou


The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou


The needs of society determine its ethics.
Maya Angelou


We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
Maya Angelou


I couldn't tell fact from fiction,Or if the dream was true
My only sure prediction
In this world was you.I'd touch your features inchly.
Beard love and dared the cost,
The sented spiel reeled me unreal
And I found my senses lost.
Maya Angelou, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings


Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
Maya Angelou, in Daily News


I know why the caged bird sings.
Maya Angelou, Quoting a lyric by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
Poul Anderson






I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
Poul Anderson


If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti


If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough
Mario Andretti


If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
Mario Andretti

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Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.
Lorraine Anderson



There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
Maxwell Anderson



I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out.
Pamela Anderson



I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
Pamela Anderson


My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
Pamela Anderson

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When love is gone, there's always justice.And when justice is gone, there's always force.And when force is gone, there's always Mom.Hi, Mom!
Laurie Anderson



And there was a beautiful viewBut nobody could see.Cause everybody on the islandWas saying: Look at me! Look at me!
Laurie Anderson, Language Is A Virus



Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Laurie Anderson, Language Is A Virus



And Sharkey says: Deep in the heart of darkest America. Home of the brave. He says: Listen to my heart beat.
Laurie Anderson, Sharkey's Night



You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're doin' everything I do. Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs. I take a drink and I look in and they're drinkin' too. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts.
Laurie Anderson, Sharkey's Night



They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.
Laurie Anderson, Strange Angels



Well I was out in my four doorWith the top down.And I looked up and there they were:Millions of tiny teardropsJust sort of hanging thereAnd I didn't know whether to laugh or cryAnd I said to myself:What next big sky?
Laurie Anderson, Strange Angels

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The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
Joe Ancis



Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Hans Christian Andersen


Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
Hans Christian Andersen


Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.
Hans Christian Andersen


Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Greg Anderson

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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street, 08-18-05


The loss of one's dignified bearing is often sudden.
Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street, 09-02-06


It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)


Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
A. R. Ammons


In nature there are few sharp lines.
A. R. Ammons


Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone?
A. R. Ammons, Glare

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I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.
Cleveland Amory


There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.
Cleveland Amory

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
Wally 'Famous' Amos

Adventure is just bad planning.
Roald Amundsen


The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
Anaxagoras, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

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Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel


Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel



The man who insists on seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel


The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel


Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel

All appears to change when we change.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel



An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel



Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel


Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
Henri-Frederic Amiel


Hope is only the love of life.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Woody Allen (1935 - ) US movie actor, comedian, & director

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody Allen

Thought: Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody Allen


To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allen


What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Woody Allen



When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
Woody AllEN


Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?
Woody Allen

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Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
Robert G. Allen


In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
Roger Allen

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
Margery Allingham, Death of a Ghost, 1934



Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004


Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
Steve Almond

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Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.
Julia T. Alvarez


I don't really trust a sane person.
Lyle Alzado



For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
Eric Amble


During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.
Stephen Ambrose, D-Day, page 577


The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company

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Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
Lisa Alther


I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
Lisa Alther, Kinflicks, 1975



The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
Noelie Altito


To play it safe is not to play.
Robert Altman


What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
Robert Altman, The Observer (1981)

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Woody Allen (1935 - ) US movie actor, comedian, & director


You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Woody AlleN


What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"


More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen, My Speech to the Graduates



Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen, The Standup Years


The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Woody Allen, Without Feathers (1976)


It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens
Woody Allen, Without Feathers, 1976

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Woody Allen (1935 - ) US movie actor, comedian, & director


My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
Woody Allen


Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
Woody Allen


On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Woody Allen

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Woody Allen

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Woody Allen



The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5'7", it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone.
Woody Allen

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Woody Allen (1935 - ) US movie actor, comedian, & director


It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen


Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
Woody Allen


My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
Woody Allen

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Woody Allen (1935 - ) US movie actor, comedian, & director


I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Woody Allen


If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
Woody Allen

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
Woody Allen

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
Woody Allen


It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody Allen



It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
Woody Allen

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Woody Allen (1935 - ) US movie actor, comedian, & director


I am at two with nature.
Woody Allen


I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Woody Allen


I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen


I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Woody Allen


I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Woody Allen


I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
Woody Allen

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Woody Allen (1935 - ) US movie actor, comedian, & director


As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody AlleN


Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen


Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
Woody Allen

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. Woody Allen


How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Woody Allen


How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?
Woody Allen

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Gracie Allen (1906 - 1964) US actress



When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
Gracie Allen




Henry Allen



It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
Henry Allen




James Lane Allen

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you





John Allen


One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.
John Allen, A network called 'Internet', CBC, 10-08-93



The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.
John Allen, A network called 'Internet', CBC, 10-08-93

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Fred Allen (1894 - 1956) US radio comedian




Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Fred Allen




What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?
Fred Allen


You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
Fred Allen



[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.
Fred Allen



I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
Fred Allen, in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953



Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.
Fred Allen, on the radio program The Big Show, Dec. 17, 1950

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Fred Allen (1894 - 1956) US radio comedian



A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen


A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen



California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be an orange.
Fred Allen


Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen



Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
Fred Allen



Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
Fred Allen


I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
Fred Allen

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Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321) Italian national epic poet


Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy


He listens well who takes notes.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy


If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy


In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy


The experience of this sweet life.L'esperienza de questa dolce vita.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy



There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

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Archibald Alexander


Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.
Archibald Alexander


Rhys Alexander

Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It’s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors.
Rhys Alexander, Writing Gooder, 12-09-05


Shana Alexander


The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
Shana Alexander



We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.
Shana Alexander

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Muhammad Ali (1942 - ) US boxer [more author details]



My toughest fight was with my first wife.
Muhammad Ali



There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Muhammad Ali



Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
Muhammad Ali, "More Than a Hero"



Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali, Catch phrase

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Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321) Italian national epic poet


O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.
Dante Alighieri


The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri



A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
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A great flame follows a little spark.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy



All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy



Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks,
have set the hearts of all On Fire.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

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Paulette Bates Alden


Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated.
Paulette Bates Alden, 'Legacies,' Feeding the Eagles, 1988



Kurt Herbert Alder


Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.
Kurt Herbert Alder




Thomas Bailey Aldrich



To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003




Buzz Aldrin (1930 - ) US astronaut



I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Buzz Aldrin

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Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888) US juvenile novelist

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott



Alcuin (732 AD - 804 AD) Anglo-Saxon mathematician & scholar



And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness. (Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.)
Alcuin




Alan Alda (1936 - ) US actor


Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.
Alan Alda



The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Alan Alda



Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980

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Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888) US educator & Transcendentalist


Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.
Amos Bronson Alcott



The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Amos Bronson Alcott



One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Amos Bronson Alcott, "Table Talk"



Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk (1877)

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Mitch Albom


The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Mitch Albom



And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven



Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven



Life has to end, love doesn't.
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven



Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven



Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven



But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, pg. 1 line 3-4

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Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC) Greek slave & fable author

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse


While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.
Aesop, The Lion, the Fox, and the Beasts


I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.
Aesop, The Man and the Satyr


Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Aesop, The Milkmaid and Her Pail

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Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC) Greek slave & fable author


Union gives strength.
Aesop, The Bundle of Sticks



Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop, The Dog and the Shadow




People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
Aesop, The Dog in the Manger



The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
Aesop, The Eagle and the Arrow




I am sure the grapes are sour.
Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes

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Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC) Greek slave & fable author


What a splendid head, yet no brain
Aesop



Put your shoulder to the wheel.
Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner





The gods help them that help themselves.
Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner




Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Aesop, Juno and the Peacock



It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
Aesop, The Ant and the Grasshopper

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Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC) Greek slave & fable author



Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop



Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Aesop



The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
Aesop


United we stand, divided we fall.
Aesop


We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop

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Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC) Greek slave & fable author


Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop



In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
Aesop



Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
Aesop



It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop


It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
Aesop

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Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC) Greek tragic dramatist


Time as he grows old teaches all things.
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound



Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound


Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers


His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.
Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes

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Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC) Greek tragic dramatist


He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus



In war, truth is the first casualty.
Aeschylus



It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Aeschylus



Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon

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Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman
In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try.
Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991



Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night.
Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991



Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.
Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991



Think about a woman. Doesn't know you're thinking about her. Doesn't care you're thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more.
Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991

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George Ade (1866 - 1944) US dramatist & humorist
Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.
George Ade


After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
George Ade, "Fables in Slang", 1899


'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.
George Ade, "The Steel Box", 1898