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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
- Publilius Syrus
The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
- Publilius Syrus
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Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
- Publilius Syrus
I often regret that I have spoken;
never that I have been silent.
- Publilius Syrus
It is better to learn late than never.
- Publilius Syrus
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
- Publilius Syrus
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is,
he's stuck with so many bad actors
who don't know how to play funny.
- Garrison Keillor
The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism.
To steal from many is research.
- Anonymous
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice,
more drunkards than thirst,
and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
- The Buddha
Many a man owes his success to his first wife
and his second wife to his success.
- Jim Backus
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
How many legs does a dog have
if you call the tail a leg? Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
- Abraham Lincoln
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things:
of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings."
- Lewis Carroll
Sometimes I've believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
CALM IN CHAOS
In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
In the midst of the storm - calm.
In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
In the many roads - a certain choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
- Alfred Adler
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela
Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Misery nourishes your ego -
that's why you see so many miserable people in the world.
The basic, central point is the ego.
- Osho
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Celebration has many different outfits
but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Faith is the highest passion in a human being.
Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- Henry David Thoreau
Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things
which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allen Poe
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous.
Then life has a newness, a youth;
then life has a flow and freshness.
Then life has so many surprises.
And when life has so many surprises,
boredom never settles in you.
- Osho
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers.
This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated
thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
- Albert Einstein
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor,
it cannot save the few who are rich.
- John F. Kennedy
There are as many pillows of illusion
as flakes in a snow-storm.
We wake from one dream into another dream.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend
reality by imagination, as I try to do.
- Anais Nin
There are many answers you have received
but have not yet heard.
- A Course In Miracles
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay.
If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
- Henry David Thoreau
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
but my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
- William Shakespeare
The fox has many tricks.
The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many societies have educated their male children
on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
- Margaret Mead
We are not to give credit to the many,
who say that none ought to be educated but the free;
but rather to the philosophers,
who say that the well-educated alone are free.
- Epictetus
Many important things shouldn't be done half-way.
Think of getting married, having children,
starting a business, changing your career.
There are times to gather your courage
and make the leap, the whole leap.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times,
always with the same person.
- Germaine Greer
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head,
and knows not that it brings abundance
to drive away the hunger.
- Saint Basil
As many raindrops join to form a great river of water,
many souls join their highest intent to form
the river of evolved consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India,
history will look upon the act of
depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
And as he spoke of understanding,
I looked up and saw the rainbow leap
with flames of many colors over me.
- Black Elk
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison
As every divided kingdom falls,
so every mind divided between
many studies confounds and saps itself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
In the midst of the storm - calm.
In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
In the many roads - a certain choice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
- E. F. Schumacher
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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